The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that whi…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
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