Happiness

 Happiness is elusively hard to define and pinpoint. It is harder yet to practice and achieve should one identify this goal. Dennis Prager and Aristotle have some helpful suggestions for defining happiness and then working towards this admirable goal.

Perhaps this recipe would require a pinch of emotional self-control learn from Stoic philosophy.

And sensible pursuit of pleasures as recommended by the Epicureans would be in order.

I would add egoistic ethics: to love and esteem God, the self, and others.

To live temperately and feel temperately help us be calmer, with the lows not so low and the highs not so high.

With these inputs, deep happiness should be available to you, even if you are naturally sad, and situationally suffering right now.

It is important to realize often that we cannot make things better by remaking the external world, but we can change how we react to what occurs in what we do in response to incoming stimuli experienced.

Also, we can be grateful and seek meaning, love, self-realization and a relationship with the High Power. We can be resolved nt to make things worse by refusing to sin deeply and by refusing to maverize.

To some degree you cannot be a happy person unless you are grateful for existence and are a good loving person.