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5 CHARACTER TRAITS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY

(EXTRACTION FROM POST: 5 CHARACTER TRAITS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY, WRITTEN BY: MARC AT http://www.marcandangel.com)

1. Courage.

Courage challenges fear, pushes it back, and keeps it in check by taking steps toward its objection.  Courage allows us to challenge our comfort zones, approach people and situations, embrace life and accept the pain that’s inevitable in all of life’s changes and challenges.  Without courage, happiness is little more than an illusion, a temporary mirage, a puff of smoke that dissipates into thin air at its first challenge.

2. Patience

Be patient.  Learn to accept the uncertain and buddy up to the unpredictable.  Let life happen, at least a little.  You’ll find it that much more beautiful and happy when you do.

3. Gratitude

To be grateful is to notice the good amidst the bad, to count your blessings and recognize how beautiful life is even when life isn’t quite going as planned.  When we’re grateful, our problems don’t disappear, they simply occupy less space in our hearts, minds and lives.  The reason is that grateful people are focused on that for which they are grateful.

4. Love

The more love that beats in your heart, the happier and more buoyant your heart will be.  The more you love life, the more life will love you back.  Love overlooks weakness and closes its eyes to idiosyncrasies.  It accepts and serves and blesses and seeks what’s best in others.  This is plainly a better path to happiness than its alternative.

5. Forgiveness

Open your heart to forgiveness.  Then your heart will finally be open enough to catch its share of happiness as well.