How to be perpetually happy?

Happiness-isn't that what we strive for throughout our life time? But, we are not happy at every second of our waking time. Happiness are very elusive. It is difficult to hold on to happiness like to trying to hold on to the fish you just caught with your hands.

Why so?
That is mainly because we always try to achieve something that is beneficial to us. Yes, the result is happiness of course but it doesn't long! In my opinion, it is because, the ulterior motive for most of our actions is to derive material benefit to self.

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."-Leo Rosten

If only we practice the above philosophy of life, then, there is no other way for happiness to escape from our clutches. We will be perpetually happy-isn't that what we strive for throughout our life time?

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