We have learned to be miserable
Page 72. We have learned to be miserable. Why don’t we live with the same state of joy we had as children? The answer is that we have learned to be miserable! We have learned to expect disappointment! Every now and then we get a glimpse of it again.
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · 7 Traits, How to Change Your World
In the book
Children live there naturally. The truth is we learned to be miserable, learned to expect disappointment, and the work of a happy adult is partly the work of unlearning it and recovering a child's easy joy. And don't wait to feel like it: we don't laugh because we're happy so much as we become happy because we laugh — the action itself summons the feeling. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)