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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.
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something read more
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
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
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.
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy read more
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
