Kathleen McGowanPerhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
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We see people in the world who are really happy, really successful, but they don’t seem very noble. Maybe this is because they are not. It is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy. It is not enough to simply be happy; we must also act nobly.
If you want to be happy, act like a person who wants to be happy. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the person has to be miserable in order to act nobly; indeed, if he or she were miserable, it would be easy for them to act in an unnobly way. But if the person acts nobly, they will naturally feel good about themselves and so will naturally feel happy.
Source: The Poet Prince
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