“ It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future o… Neel Burton
“ One of the central tenets of the Western worldview is that one should always be engaged in some kind of outward task. Thus, the Westerner structures his time—including, sometimes, even his leisure tim… Neel Burton
“ The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end? William Barrett
“ We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music—just doing these things make u… Zander Sherman
“ I am not here to be average, I am not here to be great, I am not here to be successful, and I am not here to be happy, I am here to simply be all of me. Ray Mancini
“ Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that that’s it. That that’s the point, that that’s t… David Foster Wallace
“ It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of happiness, we can see it like this: To be happy you must quite literally "l… Simon Blackburn
“ Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.Because, somehow… Carew Papritz
“ Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals. It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment...Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals... Manoj Arora
“ My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about. Oscar Wilde
“ Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you. Lolly Daskal
“ If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce content… Shya Kane
“ In any ten step instruction manual and every book of doctrines, there is complex advice that serves the very simple function of helping the lonely person find some similarity with the world around him… Vironika Tugaleva
“ Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness? Bryant McGill
“ She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness. Thomas Love Peacock
“ They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us. Ruta Sepetys
“ A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less differen… David Hume
