"Mokokoma Mokhonoana"の名言

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
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Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.
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Our pursuit of happiness is an addiction to us and a cancer to our planet.
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No one is freer than someone who couldn’t care less about how he or she feels.
タグ: unhappy, unhappiness, the-pursuit-of-happiness, slavery, mood, happy, happiness, freedom, feelings, emotions
Only fake happiness comes with the compulsion to flaunt it.
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We are greatly enslaved by how we do not want and how we want to feel.
タグ: unhappiness, the-pursuit-of-happiness, slavery, pleasure-principle, pleasure, pain, happiness, freedom, feelings, emotions
As an attempt to escape their unhappiness, some people ran to something they used to look down on, or make fun of, when they were happy.
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We automatically allow what someone will say about us to make us unhappy when we allow what they have said about us to make us happy.
タグ: unhappy, unhappiness, praise, opinions, opinion, happy, happiness, criticize, criticism, compliment
The main source of some poor people’s misery is, not their being poor, but some people’s not being poor.
タグ: unhappiness, the-joneses, poverty, poor, misery, miserable, happiness, failure, comparison, adversity
The challenging thing with trying to fill our emptiness with things such as food, drugs, and alcohol is that our body is a leaky container.
タグ: unhappiness, stress, happiness, food, empty, emptiness, drugs, depression, alcohol, addiction
Pursuing happiness comes with being pursued by unhappiness.
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For our happiness or unhappiness, we have only what we think about something or someone to thank or blame.
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We are so addicted to and desperate for happiness that we are often happy for other people.
タグ: unhappy, unhappiness, pride, pleasure, joy, happy, happiness, desperation, desperate, addiction
Unhappiness is best and often concealed with a smile; jealousy, with a compliment.
タグ: unhappy, unhappiness, smile, jealousy, jealous, happiness, envy, compliments, compliment
We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.
タグ: suffering, stoicism, spirituality, preference, likes, life, happiness, expectations, expectation, dislikes
You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.
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He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.
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It is evil to give up on someone before them.
タグ: write-off, success, never-give-up, motivation, hopeful, hope, hold-on, give-up, failure, entrepreneurship
Worrying requires way more energy than hoping, which—unlike worrying—is energizing.
タグ: worrying, worry, positivity, never-give-up, negativity, motivation, hopeless, hopeful, hope, give-up
It is almost always better to take a chance and hope that your life will get better instead of ending it.
タグ: suicide, suicidal, motivation, hopeless, hopeful, hope, faith, despondent, depression, depressed