Key Take-Aways from “The Cost of Always Looking for Happiness”:
- Joy lives within a person; happiness comes from the outside and may be momentary;
- Joy is connected to contentment and fulfillment;
- Joy is when you feel most alive;
- “Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God” (French philosopher and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin);
- Don’t stop your story at the point where you’re experiencing pain and disappointment (Brenda Schlender): life must be lived going forward but only understood looking backward.
- Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow (Melody Beattie)
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