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The old monk said, "The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!"

Lesson no. 6: Happiness is a long walk in the mountains.

Lesson no. 5: Happiness is a long walk in the mountains.

Lesson no. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

Lesson no. 2: Happiness often comes when least expected.

Lesson no. 2: Happiness often comes when least expected.

Lesson no. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

One of them he already knew, but it was good to be reminded of it: women are very complicated, even if you are a psychiatrist. The other would be very useful to him during his investigation: you must be careful when you ask people whether they're happy; it's a question that can upset them a great deal.

She told him that she'd taken it as a criticism. As if Hector had said: 'You'll never be happy' and that therefore he wouldn't want to stay with her, because, obviously, nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.

Basically, all of these well dressed people said that they didn't like their lives, they questioned their choice of profession, they wondered whether they were married or nearly married to the right person, they had the impression that they were missing out on something important in life, that time was passing and they couldn't be everything they wanted to be

"Emotions can cause major problems"

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you"

"The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters"

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world... But you do have some say in who hurts you."

He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way never learned the universal language. Because when you know that language, its easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you...And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.

... he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke. The language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.

When you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

When you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.

My social status was about the same as a water fountain in the hall - people were happy enough I was there when they needed me, but otherwise they walked on by.

An unrequited crush is harder to grapple with, because it's a crush that you haven't even admitted to yourself. The romantic forces are all there- you want to see him, you always notice him, you treat every word from him as if it weighs more than anyone else's. But you don't know why. You don't know that you're doing it. You'd follow him to the end of the earth without ever admitting that your feet were moving.

An articulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited crush you know what the hell you're doing, even if the other person isn't doing it back.

I sat there crying while I read it and feeling stupid but sort of not caring that I felt stupid. It was a letter about that sort of amazing, total love you always hope someone will feel for you someday, that obliterating passion that makes everything else in the world not matter.

It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.

It just has to be.

Two people in a park --
They kiss.
An intersection.

There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk.

Somewhere in between, lies.

In the end friendship was proven to be the dominant force. the head and the heart were found to be the joint sources of true romance. It has been demonstrated.

She did nit want the universe's ever-growing entropy to interfere with her love life

She feared fusion would only bring fission, with the mass deficits too great and the energy spent too consuming to make the romantic endeavor worthwhile.

To every action there is always opposed an equal action. That is to say that love always goes against a certain gradient. Sometimes risk. Sometimes popular opinion. In this case, regret

I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to her you are not thinking of the fact that you ate talking to her. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be.