The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

fleeting and brittle

‘when you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float’

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.

the effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

Ask yourself whether you are happy,’ observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, ‘and you cease to be so.

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.’

Schemes and plans for making things better fuel our dissatisfaction with the only place where happiness can ever be found – the present.

How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything, Yes, Anything!