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.

Some people are way less tortured by poverty than some are tormented by wealth.

The shaping of how we are feeling by how we are looking at life is always in tough competition with the shaping of how we are looking at life by how we are feeling.

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.

We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.

Money isn’t everything. The same is true of the lack of it.

To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.

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