Being happy...

is the best way to measure your self as a success in life.  What makes you happy?  It certainly can come from a lot of things, but no one else can make you happy!  I hear this all the time.  "I will make you happy."  This cannot happen as happiness is generated from within.  Happiness comes from being content with ourselves because we are doing and being the best we expect ourselves to be and considering other people to be as important as we are.  Being happy is not easy, we are so distracted by stuff.  But, look around, many people with many things are not happy.  Finding happiness is looking within with love and patience and acting from that place.  Make a ripple, think about it, see what happens.