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The Link Between Self-Reliance and Well-Being

By Arthur C. Brooks — 2021

Done right, individualism has tremendous benefits for our senses of competence, effectiveness, and life direction.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

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