Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Bertrand Russell said
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
On the topicWhat makes a good life?under our view: How you meet what happens matters more than what happens
To bear misfortune well when it comes, it is wise to have cultivated in happier times a certain width of interests, so that the mind may find prepared for it some undisturbed place suggesting other associations and other emotions than those which are making the present difficult to bear.
Where this was said
↗The Conquest of Happiness (1930)gutenberg.org
All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 18th
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I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.