Look back over your life and you will find that the simple act of getting, achieving, or getting rid of something simply gave you temporary happiness. Because you soon desired something else to make you happy and thought you could only be happy when it happened. We seek new homes, more money, classic boats and cars, vacations with all the frills, different occupations, new relationships in an effort to achieve enduring happiness. Then, when we get these things, we find true happiness is still elusive. True happiness is never achieved through getting or getting rid of things and people.
Happiness is an inside job.
It comes from living our lives to the fullest moment to moment. It is realized by enjoying all the little things we often overlook through either living in the past or in the future. Happiness is right now, this second, this moment. It is what we are. In the final analysis, you are the only one who can make you happy.