Searching For Happiness

The search for happiness

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter … Read more

This search for happiness

This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way. Franklin Graham

I don\’t believe in

I don’t believe in happiness anyway… it’s too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery. Frank McCourt

Making comparisons can spoil

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness. François Lelord

Happiness often comes when

Happiness often comes when least expected. François Lelord

Many people think that

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money. François Lelord

Lesson no. 17: Happiness

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love. François Lelord

Sometimes happiness is not

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story. François Lelord

We all have direct

We all have direct experience with things that do or don’t make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won’t make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. … Read more