Alexander McCall Smith Quote

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.

My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension...

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

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their un...

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre...

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there is no unde...

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.

The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.