One cannot be happy if goodness does not exist in one's heart because without goodness, one can only complain about everything and cannot be satisfied with the things one possesses.

Goodness is indispensable for the existence of forgiveness, which in turn is indispensable for the existence of peace, which in turn is indispensable for the existence of happiness. You can observe here a chain of indispensable conditions necessary for the existence of real happiness, which you must respect if you want to be realistic.

This statement means that if you are trying to be happy and are also unable to forgive your enemies and you also do not have peace of mind or peace in your life, you are being very naive and your attempt is pre-condemned to fail.

If you accept the selfish happiness that neglects mistakes, problems and absurd facts and events of life, you are accepting an illusion as if it was something possible to exist the way you imagine. Happiness with selfishness is pure hypocrisy.

No, you shall not accept what is wrong, but try to correct it. However, your hatred won't help. That's why you need goodness. You shall not destroy but always create and improve everything with patience if you wish to be really happy and to see everyone around you happy as well.

Goodness will make you happy even when you are sad, only because you are making other people happy or saving them from pain.

The truth is that goodness will make you happy even when you suffer in order to help others, because if you have goodness in your heart, you'll care more about how other people feel than about your own satisfaction. You'll also be very easily satisfied because you will give importance to the simple good things in life, which you cannot perceive if you are always concentrated in your own selfish plans.

Perhaps you cannot understand how you can feel happy while you are suffering in order to save the others, but try to put yourself in the place of those that are suffering.

Haven't you ever felt the need to protect someone weaker than you and give that person something that could have protected you as well?

Sometimes it's better to feel cold but to give your coat to a child that is freezing, for example, to give your seat to someone older than you, even though you are tired... You can feel happy because you are helping other people that need your help. Without you, they would suffer very much. But you are strong and you can suffer without caring about that; that's why you prefer to save them instead of continuing to live in your own comfort, without caring about their problem.

If you learn to be good, you'll have pleasure of helping others. First of all, you'll understand that you are very lucky because you are strong and you can help, instead of being the one who needs help from somebody else.

You'll be grateful because you are healthy, you are alive and you can do many things. Goodness will make you happy for no reason, for everything.

Once I read in a book that beauty is not in the object, but in the eyes of the beholder. And the truth is that when you don't have eyes for any beauty because you are concerned with your own problems, you will never see it anywhere.

If you are always complaining about everything and provoking fights, how can you ever find happiness in your life? Or do you expect to see the whole world functioning according to your desires, to feel satisfied?

Goodness will help you be very realistic and objective. You have to accept some suffering in your life, you have to forgive other people's mistakes and you have to find a way to solve your problems without causing more problems to everyone... Goodness will help you accept everything without hatred. You'll simply accept human nature and the human mistakes, sadly but without anger.

Your sadness won't last for long if there is goodness in your heart as well, because you won't care about the way you feel but you'll always have pity of the others because they are not wise and they are weak, while you are balanced and strong.

Goodness makes you wise only because you are not selfish. Selfishness is primitive and wild. Goodness is pure wisdom, because it's based on helping others, on peace, on love, on everything we learn when we are children but we forget when we grow up...

This is the ancient wisdom that mankind despises, but is the only one that can save us from despair and craziness, so that we may finally find peace and happiness.