“Too excited to be genuinely happy”
“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
“Happiness is an art mastered by the very few. Genuinely happy people are as rare as Christians who believe in God.”
“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.”
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.”