The Happiness Hypothesis

The Stoics are strong on this. As Epictetus put it, what really frightens and dismaze us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. Here's Buddha. Our life is the creation of our mind. Let's go to a whole list of these here. Oh, here's Victor Franklin, man's search for meaning. Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing, the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,. To choose one's own way. This would be such good advice to young people today from Marcus Aurelius. You don't have to turn this into something