THREAD // My favorite quotes from "A Guide to the Good Life" by William B. Irvine:
"The easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have."
"The easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have."
"Humans are unhappy largely because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires."
"Throughout the millennia and across cultures, those who have thought carefully about desire have drawn the conclusion that spending our days working to get whatever it is we find ourselves wanting is unlikely to bring us either happiness or tranquility."
"People who achieve luxurious lifestyles are rarely satisfied: experiencing luxury only whets their appetite for even more luxury."
"The key is to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them."
"Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in question is the anxiety, grief, fear, and various other negative emotions that plague humans and prevent them from experiencing a joyful existence."
