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Because I did not understand the difference between meaning and happiness, I did not appreciate that life could be meaningful without being happy. I didn__ understand that meaning and happiness are occasionally opposed, such that the self-sacrifice that yields meaning may come at the cost of the very things on which happiness most depends. I erroneously assumed that if I were unhappy then my life lacked significance.
James Castleton MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
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Because I did not understand the difference between meaning and happiness, I did not appreciate that life could be meaningful without being happy. I didn__ understand that meaning and happiness are occasionally opposed, such that the self-sacrifice that yields meaning may come at the cost of the very things on which happiness most depends. I erroneously assumed that if I were unhappy then my life lacked significance.
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James Castleton

MD, Mending of a Broken Heart

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