Happiness has nothing to do with what we possess, or what we "accomplish" in the world, or where we are, or whom we are with, or our external circumstances, or even our physical condition. Happiness is something we (with God's guidance and help, of course) create within ourselves, based solely upon eternal, unchanging things. Only we ourselves can make it. Only we ourselves can harm it. Any "happiness" that depends upon anything or anyone that can change -- and will, with the inexorable passage of time, certainly pass away -- is a cheat and a delusion. Look to the end. Will it LAST? If not, do not waste your precious time on it.

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