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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly read more
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we read more
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
