We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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