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The Road To Happiness

　It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot getshox r4 happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which air jordan shoesoften succeed. So it is with happiness. If air jordansyou pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the air jordanshang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry max ltdbread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more air retro jordanvigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and rocker switchtheoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and china valveheroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.

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　　The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated toowatches replica solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a electric fuel pumpbetter theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy maytattoo machines be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his childrens noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen----a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.Man is an animal, and his happiness bark collardepends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.