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HAPPINESS "Happiness is the
absence of striving for happiness." - Chuang-tzu (BC) Happiness is inside us, in our minds, in our thoughts. It is not external material things or experiences, but the enjoyment of our thoughts and feelings. This is good because our thoughts, and therefore our happiness, are up to us. "Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life." - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) If our happiness is lost we can do something about it, because we can control our feelings by substituting unhappy thoughts with happy thoughts. Whenever an unpleasant picture enters your mind, eject it and replace it with a pleasant one. We all have some nice experiences to recollect and there are always little pleasures in life that are around us all the time. You can even imagine enjoyable experiences, and it will have a similar positive effect. "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Establish good principles and conduct yourself according to these principles. Love, or at least be tolerant of, your fellow humans. Don't strive too hard for that which, in the end, will not make you happier. "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536) "A happy life consists of tranquillity of mind." - Cicero (BC)
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