“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”
Bertrand Russell
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness”
“Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.”
James Allen
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love”
Baruch Spinoza
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