They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
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Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.
I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.
When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
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