Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, read more

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

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

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.

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.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive read more

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was 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.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.