A need is something that is required to keep you alive. A want is something that you think is required to make or keep you happy.

An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.

It is a sign of failure to have achieved spiritual awakening, to seek happiness in material success.

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.

Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.

You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.

We are so addicted to and desperate for happiness that we are often happy for other people.

An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness.