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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardene...more

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

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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.

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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

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A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not goo...more

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

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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.

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those w...more

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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to kn...more

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In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics...more

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

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One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opp...more