Perhaps the surest way to find happiness and joy for yourself is to devote your energies toward making someone else happy. If you make an effort to search for joy you will find it elusive, largely because you will become engaged in the search itself. Your life will be about striving. However, if you try to bring happiness to someone else then joy will come to you.
You came into this world with nothing and you will leave with nothing. The only thing you can do with your life is to give it away. This is the true essence of feeling purposeful. This is the way to have joy in the face of sadness. You experience joy when you attempt to bring it to others. And this is what Saint Francis understood to be the goal of life.
May we be granted the grace not to so much seek to be consoled as to console, not to so much seek to be understood as to understand, and not to so much seek to be loved as to love.
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