Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. Elizabeth Gilbert
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When people feel happy, they keep it that way by doing the things that make them happy. Doing things that make people happy are called manifestations . People are happier if they are able to get what they want out of life. These are the things that make them happy. They must work at maintaining this happiness by doing the things that make them happy.

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

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