"I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things."

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These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.

— John Locke