One of the Greatest Gifts We Can Give Our Loved Ones

Our own happiness

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. -Charles Spurgeon

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. –Dale Carnegie

Don’t we feel good inside when our loved ones are happy?

Don’t we feel good, warm, content, relaxed, peaceful when our children, our spouse, our friends, the other significant people in our lives seem happy, are happy?

Many of us tend to worry when they aren’t, though, don’t we? We might feel worried, concerned. We might even feel anxious, distressed, troubled, disturbed if they seem unhappy.

We certainly are impacted by the energy, attitudes, feelings of our loved ones.

So, what if we turn that around?

We might say that one of the greatest gifts we can give the ones we love is our own happiness.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. –Denis Waitley

Aren’t you happy and delighted when the ones you love are happy and delighted?

It really isn’t selfish to work on our own happiness. It is actually giving, kind, and generous.

What if we give ourselves permission to work on our own happiness?

What if we give ourselves permission to work on the things that delight us, the things we are attracted to doing, creating, being, becoming?

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. -Ayn Rand

This shift is a step towards improving our own wellness and wellbeing. This shift is a step towards personal growth and self-improvement.

Our own happiness uplifts and energizes others.

We become delightful to be around.

We become more loving, lovable.

We become a gift to others.

We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. -David C. Hill

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. -Divyanka Tripathi

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort -Franklin D. Roosevelt

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. -Frederick Keonig

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. -Freya Stark