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ailsagirl

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Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:09 PM Dec 2016

Nine Places Unhappy People Look for Happiness

Last edited Sat Dec 31, 2016, 01:09 AM - Edit history (1)

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” —Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happy people know that happiness is a choice. They know it is not a reaction to present circumstances. Instead, happiness is an available decision despite them. They have removed the thinking that waits for everything to be perfect before joy in life is experienced.

On the other hand, unhappy people are always searching for happiness. They believe happiness
is reliant upon the acquisition of something new or something different. They are constantly chasing, but never attaining. Often times, they search for it in all the wrong places.
(emphases mine)

Consider this list of 9 Places Unhappy People Look for Happiness.

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Worth reading

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/be-happy/

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Nine Places Unhappy People Look for Happiness (Original Post) ailsagirl Dec 2016 OP
I left mine under the sofa cushions... malthaussen Dec 2016 #1
"Your happiness is based solely on your decision to be happy" Skittles Dec 2016 #2
+1 Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #3

Skittles

(153,160 posts)
2. "Your happiness is based solely on your decision to be happy"
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 04:50 PM
Dec 2016

that is one ridiculously simplistic statement

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