<p>Success and Happiness is a feeling every human being on this planet desires in their heart of hearts. And yet most of us look for happiness in all the wrong places and end up causing ourselves more suffering. </p>
<p>This is because we are looking outside of ourselves for some thing or some one to bring us that feeling. </p>
<p>Rumi once said, We go from room to room looking for the diamond necklace around our neck. So it is when we search &#8220;everywhere&#8221; for happiness, we never see where it really is, which is with us all along.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/02/happiness-is-a-decision/" title="Permanent Link: Happiness is a Decision By Michelle L. Casto" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3274,"date":"2019-02-18T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T22:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2019-02-18T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T22:17:43","slug":"happiness-is-a-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/02\/happiness-is-a-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is a Decision By Michelle L. Casto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Success and Happiness is a feeling every human being on this planet desires in their heart of hearts. And yet most of us look for happiness in all the wrong places and end up causing ourselves more suffering. <\/p>\n<p>This is because we are looking outside of ourselves for some thing or some one to bring us that feeling. <\/p>\n<p>Rumi once said, We go from room to room looking for the diamond necklace around our neck. So it is when we search &#8220;everywhere&#8221; for happiness, we never see where it really is, which is with us all along.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/02\/happiness-is-a-decision\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Happiness is a Decision By Michelle L. 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