Happiness

Usually we figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-dependent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

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