The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
Tag: Quotes on Happiness
I think we talk about happiness …
I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
When you are happy, everywhere is …
When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
Happiness to me is mainly not …
Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson