Anyone could be unhappy; it took no courage and effort. True achievement lay in struggling to be happy. The notion that we have to work at happinesses as news to many people. We assume it’s a feeling thates as a result of good things that just happen to us, a thing over which we have little or no control. But the opposite is true: happiness is largely under our control. To achieve a happy life, it’s necessary to ovee some stumbling blocks.
One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest flaw. It’s like looking at the tiled ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is missing