Tom Utley writes:
"The paradox is that if you think of life as a series of duties (as she always has) - and of happiness as an undeserved blessing, rather than a right - you are likely to be much happier than if you think happiness is yours by right."
"That's a sense that most of my generation have lost, if we ever had it."
"All the emphasis, since the liberal reforms of the 1960s, has been on replacing Christian duties with human rights."
"In the process, I believe, we have diminished the stock of human happiness rather than increasing it."
TOM UTLEY: Last rites for my dear old mum, a bedside farce and why the rights culture robs us of happiness | Mail Online
Hat tip to "The Other Side of Kim."
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