Enjoy Life Despite Hardship - Reader's Digest (Essentials Edition V)

Author: Dongfang Xiao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: A great way to seek happiness is to avoid expecting gratitude from others. Giving is an enjoyment of the joy of bestowing. Painful things are best forgotten during a walk. You might as well try it, and all painful things will fly away like birds with wings. Everyone has both happiness and pain, just to varying degrees. The one who suffers the least pain is the happiest person; the one who experiences the most happiness is the most painful person. Pain, like joy, creates an atmosphere. Walking into someone's house, you can see at a glance whether its tone is one of pain or joy. Life is a painful journey, and people often feel discouraged and lost. Yet, how many are able to bear the questions that cannot be helped? The pursuit of happiness is human nature, but experiencing hardship is also inevitable in life. The path of life is originally so rugged. Why not face it with equanimity and walk boldly? No one's life is perfect, and when you look back after having experienced the vastness of life, it is merely a scene of light clouds and clear winds, a cycle of day and night. Treat life with a sense of detachment, and even a life of hardship can enjoy happiness.