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.

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.

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.

Within, the only place where it is created, is the very last place most pursuers of happiness are likely to go.

The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.

Pursuing happiness comes with being pursued by unhappiness.

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.

Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.