If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
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