“In his 1851 work American Notebooks, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” This is basically a restatement of the Stoic philosophers’ “paradox of happiness”: To attain happiness, we must not try to attain it.”
Don’t Wish for Happiness. Work for It.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/04/working-wishing-happiness/618664/
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Don’t Wish for Happiness. Work for It.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/04/working-wishing-happiness/618664/
via Instapaper