Happiness

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"Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh."
  • "Families Are Forever and So Is Parenthood", Ensign, July 2006, pp. 62-63
Talks about how happiness is a choice.
The experiance of a young woman in a strange place, who realized that fear was preventing her from being happy. She explains how she realized this and how she came to overcome her fear.
"When you tell someone that they should 'do what makes them happy,' you're advocating for an on-policy approach to happiness—making decisions and evaluating them by the same metric. That's exactly what they didn't want me to do. And while my parents didn’t learn this from reading Mill, the surprising thing about this position on happiness that it is shared—in some version or another—by practically every other philosopher who has weighed in on the matter. Old white dudes have been saying for millennia that the key to happiness is to be dedicated to a purpose larger than yourself."

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