Chapter XII
Joy Words

Conditions, like people, are growing things; never two minutes in exactly the same state. If you pin your happiness to a thing, or a friend, you will probably have to unpin it before night.

Happiness, real happiness of the abiding, growing kind, never comes as a result of fitting circumstances to your notions. It comes from fitting YOURSELF to circumstances. In no other way can it be found.

After all, this is much easier to do. There is but One of you to be adjusted; while all the rest of creation goes to make up your environment. And your power over yourself is practically unlimited; while your power over even your immediate environment is next to nothing.

What power has a convict over his prison walls and keepers? But he has all power over his mind; and he has all power over his body within the limits set by his prison walls and his keeper's rules.

A convict can be a fool and fret away his life within those walls; he can sulk mentally, and refuse to use his physical powers as far as permitted. If he does this he falls sick and dies, an unhappy man; unhappy because he fretted over what he couldn't do, instead of doing what he could.

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