By now you know that you do not wait for happiness. If your happiness is not dependent upon what happens, then why prolong the arrival of your happiness and say it needs certain conditions before it can be yours? No longer put off happiness.

You do not need all your dreams fulfilled in order to be happy today. It makes no difference. You really think it does. At the same time, you know better.

Whatever you have, or do not have, you are happy or not. You think everything but happiness is foisted on you, and that happiness has to wait for another time when your life will be different. Nothing has to be different but your appraisal.

Your mind contains thoughts like signs on the road. The signs tell you what's ahead. In five miles you will find a restaurant or a gas station. The signs indicate that you have to wait five miles before you can stop. And so your mind tells you that happiness is ahead of you and makes you believe in certain restrictions and time lags.

Convert your mind to a newer way of thinking. Turn in your old thoughts. Leave them by the wayside. Turn to another station on your radio.

Happiness can be yours right now. Happiness is yours right now.

You have allowed yourself to be affected egregiously by what goes on around you. You feel happy when A occurs and unhappy when B occurs. Your happiness becomes like a ball that is bounced. But A and B were not the cause of your happiness or unhappiness. Your mind convinced you that you could be happy only under certain conditions. Your mind made up a story, and you swallowed it whole hog.

Happiness is not something that happens to you. Happiness is not meant to be like a hair color that changes according to the style.

Nothing can change, and you can be happy. Everything can change, and you can be happy.

You yourself are a ball of happiness and you bounce yourself.

Your mind puts certain perimeters around your recognition of happiness. But you already have within you everything that is needed for happiness. In a palace, you can be happy or unhappy. In a shanty, you can be happy or unhappy. Under a tree you can be happy or unhappy. You may not call all the shots in your life, but you do call the shots of your happiness.

You were born to be happy. Regardless of anything, you can be happy. Do not let your mind be the boss of you so much. What does your mind have to do with happiness except to control the release of it to you?

Tell your children that if even if they get a D or E on a test, they are still allowed to be happy. It is not that you are to be happy about this or that. It is that you are to be happy. It is not that you are to be happy because of this or that. You are just to be happy. It is not that you are to be happy despite this or that. It is just that you are to be happy.

I give you permission to be happy. I fill the pitcher of your heart with happiness. All you have to do is pour. And then happiness circulates through every cell of your being.

You can know happiness right in this snap of your fingers. Why not? Tell your mind to go add up columns of numbers or something, to leave you alone, and let you be happy. Don't take any backtalk from your mind. Be happy instead.