Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
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Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
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Find Happiness in Acceptance
Happiness within doesn’t always feel happy.
We live in a world that is emotionally unintelligent and immature. One common misconception that stems from there is the expectation that you can always be happy. And sure, there are all these pills and promises, but that misses the point.
Emotions are often represented by water in esoteric traditions. A
... See more“Don’t piss on any happiness or kindness that comes your way. It’s a real sin to decide that an act or a moment is insufficient because it wasn’t the one you hoped for or most needed. I did that for a long time, and I became my own worst enemy, as we often can be.
Life—when you’ve lived a lot of it, as I have—is a series of acts and moments, and su
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