“Money doesn’t make you happy, it just gives you a better quality of unhappiness.”
~ Mister Sunshine
How a millionaire traded his wealth for happiness – and a shoeshine box
Category Archives: Quotes
Darwin – On the value of time and life
“A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of his life.”
~ Charles Darwin
Wu-Hsin – On Authenticity
“The greatest crime is the overlooking of who you really are in favor of the story of who you think you are. This preoccupation with your personal drama is the cloud that masks the sun.”
~Wu-Hsin
Mr. Spock – On a few things
“And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see indications that it is his negative side that makes him strong, that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength.”
“May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed working with humans. I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.”
“The fact that my internal arrangement differs from yours, doctor, pleases me to no end.”
“It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.”
“You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical but it is often true.”
~ Mr. Spock, Star Trek
Cyril Connolly – On Writing
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
~ Cyril Connolly
John Fowles – On Silence
“There are times when silence is a poem.”
~John Fowles, The Magus
Mark Twain – On Life and Love
“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
~Mark Twain
This is one of my favorite quotes. That which you seek is usually right under your nose, or in this case, right between your ears.
I wrote about this in more detail in On the search for happiness.
Richard Feynman – On Happiness and Wealth
“Wealth is not happiness nor is swimming pools and villas. Nor is great work alone reward, or fame. Foreign places visited themselves give nothing. It is only you who bring to the places your heart, or in your great work feeling, or in your large house place. If you do this there is happiness.”
~Richard Feynman
Kierkegaard – On Madness
“It is quite curious: naturally the life of a little insignificant thing is viewed with contempt, and is overlooked by all intelligent people; in return, the little insignificant thing sometimes takes revenge, for when a man goes mad it is almost always over some little insignificant thing.”
~Kierkegaard
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