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“True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.”

Source: A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom

“It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.”

Happiness Causes Virtue Exercise Activity Opposites Active Faculty Conformity

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions”

Men May Happiness Poverty Conditions Disease Opposites Good Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.”

Life Feels Made Happiness Nature Virtue Possibility Gratitude Discovery Opposites Convinced Odd Cheer Gardener Savants

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

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Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.”

Want Made Happiness Destiny Opposites My Destiny

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.”

Littles Happiness Talent Produce Opposites Little Things Temperament Great Ones

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.”

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Author:Joan Chen

“A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.”

“Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.”

Happiness Opposites Seeking Traveler Seeking Happiness

Author:Robert Breault