Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote...
Even envy, wants to even the score.
Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.
The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easil...