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It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing

Circumstances arrive first. Stories follow.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Independence

We hold these Truths to be self-evident

A right to pursue something is not a promise of finding it.

There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path. Buddha

There is no path to happiness

The way we seek something can determine whether we find it.

Happiness is a ghost that’s not worth pursuing – there are far wiser goals in life. Rafa Euba

Happiness is a ghost that’s not worth pursuing

The things we chase most directly are not always the things we find.

People travel far and away to watch in awe the natural world they ignore at home. Mind Map Journal

People travel far and away

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

If only we’d stop trying to be happy

The pressure to enjoy life can make it harder to enjoy

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy

A life can be good without always feeling good.

Happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them. Will Durant

Happiness is in making things

Making things satisfies a part of us that consuming cannot reach.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. Hafez

Stay close

Not everything that pleases us makes us feel alive.

My aim in life, in totality, my whole purpose for existing in life was to be happy. That’s not my purpose anymore. My purpose now is to be useful. Shia Lebeouf

My aim in life

What fulfills us at one stage of life may not fulfill us at another.