"What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person."

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Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.17, BookBaby

Chris Prentiss

#Mean Quotes #Events Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes

“It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.”
“Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.”
“It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.”
“For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery”
“The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing.”
“The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.”
“Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.”
“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.”

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