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What does it mean?
Happiness is determined by our own choices and actions.
In plain terms
We control our own happiness.
What can you take from it?
Take responsibility for your happiness.

Where it applies

  • personal life
  • therapy
  • coaching

Putting it to work

  • focus on internal factors
  • choose perspective

Questions to consider

  • What is within your control?
  • How do you choose happiness?

Another view

External circumstances can limit our ability to be happy.

More from Aristotle

  1. Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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  2. Happiness is a sort of action.

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  3. Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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