Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.
If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought.
Your thoughts are like the artist’s brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur.
Take that rose bush, for example. We are all looking at the same plant, but our perception of it varies according to the way we each think and see. One person may see a vigorous rose, another may see a rose that could benefit from a little pruning, and a third may see a mess that no amount of attention would save. The rose bush isn’t changing; it’s the way we personally perceive it that differs, the way each of us thinks that colors our perception.