mindset Quotes

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.