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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.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor read more
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are read more
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
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.
