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Happiness & building character

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FindCenter We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure—your perfection—is within you already.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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FindCenter No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy.

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FindCenter Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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FindCenter And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt—this is not selfishness, but obligation.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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FindCenter Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.

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FindCenter Achieving durable happiness as a way of being is a skill. It requires sustained effort in training the mind and developing a set of human qualities, such as inner peace, mindfulness, and altruistic love.

Matthieu Ricard

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