Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Some of those who faked it until they made it are now faking not to have made it.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

A relationship is very likely to initially make us pretend we are someone we are not; a friendship, to eventually make us pretend we are still someone we used to be.

It is usually those whose love is fake that have a compulsion to prove their love.

A friend is way less likely than a boyfriend or girlfriend to make us pretend to be someone we are not; or that our family is a good family, or way better, or way less crazy or dysfunctional than it actually is.

The smiles of the unhappiest are often the widest.