Category: Famous People Happiness

  • Marcus Aurelius on inner contentment

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    Marcus Aurelius said that pain either affects the body or the soul. Only one of them do you have any say over. “The soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.”…

  • The Dalai Lama on Compassion and Joy

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    As human beings we all have the potential to be happy and compassionate people, and we also have the potential to be miserable and harmful to others. The potential for all these things is present within each of us. If we want to be happy, then the important thing is…