Many of us spend time in anxious striving looking for the key to happiness. Unfortunately, we often find this goal to be an elusive one. The harder we work at it, the more discontented we become.
One of the best ways to be happy is to simply decide that there is no better time to be happy than right now, the moment we're in. Because it often seems that those who are miserable today carry their misery into tomorrow.
What better way to find happiness than to find reason for contentment no matter the situation... and to trust that a loving God has a plan whose beauty will become apparent as His plan unfolds.
The most important thing of all is to make sure of having tranquility, not because it is the mother of contentment but because it is the daughter of the love of God and of our own will's resignation. Occasions for practicing tranquility come our way every day; for we never lack contradictions, wherever we may be; and when there is no one to contradict us we inflict contrariness on ourselves.
~St. Francis de Sales
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