"Only once one has known real sadness can one feel true happiness."

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"Only once one has known real sadness can one feel true happiness."

"After every sad day, comes a glad day!" goes a popular English rhyme. Happiness is an abstract concept, having different meanings for different people. Borrowing words from a similar adage, one man's sorrow maybe another man's happiness. In that case, we need to truly examine whether true happiness is actually felt only when one has known real sadness.

As long as wants and needs exist in this world, theoretically, there will be no dearth of sorrow. A man's happiness is temporary, lasting only till the feeling of euphoria that arises from having fulfilled one his pressing needs, lasts. In f...

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Sentence: But does true happiness only lie in the fulfilment of human needs?
Error: fulfilment Suggestion: fulfillment

Sentence: Most of the time, it is impractical to desire that one's needs will be fulfilled, and therefore it would be illogical to base one's state of mind on fulfilment of material wants.
Error: fulfilment Suggestion: fulfillment

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