‘when you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float’
Liza Rakovskayafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions – or, at the very least, to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.
Liza Rakovskayafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
the effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
Liza Rakovskayafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
Ask yourself whether you are happy,’ observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, ‘and you cease to be so.
Еленаfez uma citaçãohá 5 anos
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.’
Еленаfez uma citaçãohá 5 anos
Schemes and plans for making things better fuel our dissatisfaction with the only place where happiness can ever be found – the present.
Еленаfez uma citaçãohá 5 anos
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything, Yes, Anything!