Everything You Need To Be Happy Is Within You
by
Luis Gregory
“To love and be loved is the greatest happiness
of existence”-Sydney Smith
Money won’t make you happy. I don’t care it you have a billion dollars,
or maintain 10 mansions across the globe, or wear diamonds the size of
ping-pong balls or own 16 multimillion corporations.
These things won’t make you happy. Here’s my principle. Money will make
you happy only if you have learned how to be happy without money! If
someone is miserable and says,” If I had enough money, then I’d be
happy,” I’d bet my life this person would continue to be miserable no
matter how rich he got.
Best-selling author John Gray said, “Money is like a magnifying glass. “
I agree. If you’re truly happy, money magnifies this feeling. It
enlarges it. If you’re miserable, money will make you even more
miserable.
It’s the same thing with marriage, or with a job, or with a house or
with kids….A single person who is miserable and says, “If only I’d meet
my perfect march and get married, then I’d be happy,” is in a big
surprise. He’ll be one very miserable married person. And worse, he or
she will make someone else as miserable as he or she is! Because the
fact is obvious: Happy people make happy marriages.
This truth works with everything else, including money. You have to
learn the secrets of true happiness before money comes, so that it does
come, you’ll know how to handle it and become happier. Learn to be happy
without money.
At the end of the day, there’s only one thing that can make you happy.
It’s called love. A cliché? So what? It’s the truth! Because you were
born with love. You’re designed for it. Every cell of your body, every
part of your soul is created for love. I’m shouting it from the
rooftops: Only love can make you truly happy!
Surround yourself with love. And practice it daily! People in their
deathbeds never say “I wish I had bought a Ferrari, “or “wish I had
spent more time in my office….” Listen to people in their dying hour and
you’ll hear the same regret: “ I wish I had spent more time loving…”
I believe that relationships are the most important things in our
lives-more important than all the wealth in the world. By the way, how
many of you have tried to quench your thirst with saltwater? Don’t
bother trying. It does not work. The only thing that saltwater does is
make you thirstier.
Money is like saltwater. No amount of money will quench your inner
thirst for love and happiness. It’ll only make you quench your inner
thirst for love and happiness. It’ll only make you thirstier. You want
more and more and more until you drop dead from spiritual malnutrition.
Learn to love every day! Let this be your highest ambition in life: to
be a great lover! So when the money comes, you’ll make money a servant
of love.
Everything you need to be happy is within you.
About the Author
Luis Gregory is doing Apostolic Work with the Life in The Spirit Ministry. Spreading The Bible online is a calling. Send free Bible verses to love ones and Bible study groups www.SuperBibleMail.com
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