“I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
“Yes, there is a “secret to happiness”—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
“Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
“Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
“The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
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