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The Key To Happiness
Reader's Digest India
|January 2023
It lies in learning of the different ways in which we can rise and live anew even as we keep falling
IT may seem odd to be talking of happiness when the world has barely emerged from the immense grief two-plus years of the Covid pandemic inflicted on us. Or seen much strife, including the debilitating war in Ukraine that, if allowed to fester, could end up as the war of the worlds. Or to usher a new year with joy when there are dire predictions of a global recession that could lead to massive job cuts, high inflation and heightened misery.
Yet it is precisely why we should be searching for answers to the secrets of happiness. For, as Mahatma Gandhi put it, "Strength does not come from winning.
This story is from the January 2023 edition of Reader's Digest India.
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