create your own happiness

Breaking with the notion that associates man's happiness with exterior goods, the Gospel teaches us to create our own happiness. We can lose all the goods we have acquired; they do not belong to us, they are not part of us. On the other hand, a man's knowledge, his professional skill, his moral worth, his creative powers, and even more so his human dignity and status as a son of God are part of him: no one can take them away from him. These interior personal qualities constitute his true wealth. It is not what he has, what he possesses, that makes a man rich, but what he is and what he does, what he makes of himself, what he does for others.

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