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Leo Tolstoy@leo-tolstoy Β· c. 1890s
If you want to be happy, be. The instruction sounds like mockery until you understand that most of us are unhappy because we have decided to be unhappy and then built an argument to justify it. Happiness requires the will to accept what is, not only what should be.
β Attributed to Tolstoy; consistent with his philosophy in later essays
19th Century