There is a saying that goes: “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”

For centuries, the greatest thinkers have suggested the same thing: Happiness is found in helping others. The key is to find the approach that works for each of us and our own individual passions. When we do, then the more we give, the more we stand to gain purpose, meaning and happiness — all of the things that we look for in life, but are so hard to find.

And so the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. And the happiness will flow from there.

Filmed in Tulbagh, South Africa.
Featuring Peter Nel.

To learn more about Peter's farm, you can visit their website http://www.fynbosguestfarm.co.za/
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Who is Green Renaissance? We are Michael and Justine passionate filmmakers, living offgrid and dedicating our time to making films that we hope will inspire and share positivity out into the world.

Editing by Rignold Haywood and Jackie Viviers
Sound mix by Tamryn Breakey

Music sourced from ArtList https://bit.ly/2KfrAt2
Gone by Beneath the Mountain
Lyell by Kevin Graham
Drifting Deeper by Caleb Etheridge
When Stars Align by Caleb Etheridge
Wildflower by Gray North
Rooms by We Dream of Eden

A huge thank you to these guys, who so generously gave of their to time to help with language translations:
Arabic by Mohammad Alkhudhair
Chinese by Loretta Jiayi Mao
Croatian by Davor Bobanac
Czech by Pavla Látalová
English by Justine du Toit
Georgian by Qeti Giorgadze
German by Tanja Pütz
Greek by Angeliki Papadimitriou
Hindi by Parul Sharma
Indonesian by Ary Nuansa
Italian by Vincenzo Mocerino
Khmer by Measraksmey Bou
Korean by Chloe Park
Persian by Mona Zadsham
Polish by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese by Jonatha Koeller
Romanian by Nelia Stoyanova
Slovak by Zuzana Beratsova
Slovenian by Jasmina Kovačič
Thai by Pimmi Uamart
Turkish by Ahsen Aygören
Vietnamese by Thi Le