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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
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.
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.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
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.
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
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
