Sunday, January 6, 2008

MESSAGE #278 - A GENIUS TELLS YOU HOW TO BE HAPPY

Some experts feel that John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) was one of the smartest people who ever lived. Mill, an English philosopher, economist, and political theorist, had an IQ estimated to be 200. Only four people were ever rated higher.

What if this genius gave you some advice on how to be happy? Here it is . . .

JOHN STUART MILL

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HAPPINESS

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.