We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

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

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Pursuing happiness comes with being pursued by unhappiness.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

Depression often transforms the will to live into the will to leave (the world).

Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.

Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.

The main source of some poor people’s misery is, not their being poor, but some people’s not being poor.