You can choose happiness.
To do this is very simple. Embrace all activities and experiences where you experience happiness. Avoid all experiences you find displeasing. Make this choice as a deliberate effort. Over time, your brain will enhance the neural pathways associated with pleasure, and atrophy the pathways associated with displeasure. Eventually, happiness will become your default state of mind.
Your power is the power to choose.
Tell that to someone on a cancer ward, or going thru a divorce, or sitting in a jail cell
I’ve had a life threatening tumor and a divorce.
With the help of God, I beat all of them.
No, it’s a choice.
God didn't save all the little girls raped and murdered by niggers
Indeed, it applies there most of all.
This^
You should read the works of Epictetus. He will show you.
I have, he agrees with me
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