HAPPINESS
A big dog saw a little dog chasing its tail and asked, “Why are you chasing your tail so?”
Said the puppy: “I have mastered philosophy, I have solved the problems of the universe which no dog before me has rightly solved; I have learned that the best thing for a dog is happiness and that happiness is my tail. Therefore I am chasing it; and when I catch it I shall have happiness.”
Said the old dog, “My son, I, too have paid attention to the problems of the universe, and I have formed some opinions. I, too, have found that happiness is a fine thing for a dog, and that happiness is in my tail. But I have noticed that when I chase after it, it keeps running away from me, but when I go about my business, it comes after me.”
Said the puppy: “I have mastered philosophy, I have solved the problems of the universe which no dog before me has rightly solved; I have learned that the best thing for a dog is happiness and that happiness is my tail. Therefore I am chasing it; and when I catch it I shall have happiness.”
Said the old dog, “My son, I, too have paid attention to the problems of the universe, and I have formed some opinions. I, too, have found that happiness is a fine thing for a dog, and that happiness is in my tail. But I have noticed that when I chase after it, it keeps running away from me, but when I go about my business, it comes after me.”
—— C.I. James
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Optimism
Among the students at a well-known college was a young man who used crutches – a homely sort of fellow. He won many scholastic honors and the respect of his classmates. One day a classmate asked the cause of his deformity.“Infantile paralysis,” was the brief reply.
“But tell me,” said the friend, “With a misfortune like that, how can you face the world so confidently?” “Oh,” he replied, smiling, “the disease never touched my heart.”
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