"If we let our happiness rest on the actions and moods of others, we will always be disappointed. If our happiness is dependent on perfect situations, it will always be a future dream forever out of reach."
Merriam Webster defines happiness as:
1 obsolete : good fortune : prosperity
2 a : a state of well-being and contentment : joy b : a pleasurable or satisfying experience
3 : felicity, aptness
The significant point in this concept and definition is that these points of view are largely, more accurately - wholly, comprised on our perspective, our paradigm, our mental construct. Ultimately our expression of discontent or contentedness in the course of life is a demonstration of what type of character we choose to employ and consequently become.
Seems like the great ones agree with me:
Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. - Horace
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials. - Danish Proverb
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. - Proverb
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
- Pietro Aretino
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph Le Conte
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
- John C. Geikie
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J. B. Gough
Character is, for the most part,simply habit become fixed. - C. H. Parkhurst
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