No Money Can Buy Happiness

Happiness is the way to travel. I have said that again and again. It is my personal dogma. No external success can assure inner happiness and contentment. Happiness comes from within. Happiness is felt when you share your love with others. This may sound so absurd, but it is true: happiness is a two way street. You give love, you receive love in return.

Now does giving really make us happy? If we give wholeheartedly, yes it does. A lot of inspirational writers have stated that in the past. That in giving, there is joy. Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Jack Canfield, Seth Godin, and many others have professed their belief that in love and giving comes true honest-to-goodness happiness. They have experienced it. They breath it.

No amount of money or success can guarantee true happiness but in giving and loving your fellowmen. The Bible says it so. How many bestselling books contain the message about the joys of giving? I have read so many stories about rich people committing suicide because of loneliness and despair, and I kept wondering why. Isn't money enough to make them happy? Apparently not.

Like I said, success doesn't guarantee a happy life. It may guarantee a good life, but not a happy one. Happiness comes from within. If you feel happy, then you are. If you feel real happiness, it will show: good health, pleasant smile, happy heart. And the only surest way to happiness is by giving happiness to others. Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted once that "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give." Giving really does bring real joy. You feel glad that you are able to help. You will have a sense of power or control. You no longer worry about yourself, your nervousness and panics gone, because you are not thinking about yourself anymore. You think about others. And that can be such a happy thought.