Happiness Will
Change Your Life

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe coined it well: “There are eight requisites for contented living: 

1. health enough to make work a pleasure;  
2. wealth enough to support your needs;  
3. strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them;  
4. grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them;  
5. patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished; 
6. charity enough to see some good in your neighbor;  
7. faith enough to make real the things of God;  
8. hope enough to remove all anxious fear concerning the future.”  

Happiness is that part of life that each of us must experience for ourselves. It finds us in what and how we do things but more quietly joins us in what we give to others. It truly depends upon us. I challenge you to open yourself to its discovery. Happiness will change your life.  

Here are some questions for reflection: 

• Is happiness a choice or a simple result of circumstances? What justifies your response?  

• How would others know whether or not you are a happy individual?  
  
  
• On a scale of 1 being low and 5 being high, how important do you feel a happy lifestyle leads to greater satisfaction in life and overall success? What confirms your thoughts?  
  
  
• How can you better align your current life status so that you will become happier?  
  
  
• How does happiness impact or influence others?