When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God _ saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don__ acknowledge it _ this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness _ he doesn__ resent them for it, and isn__ deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.
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If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God _ saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don__ acknowledge it _ this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness _ he doesn__ resent them for it, and isn__ deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.
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