“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”
“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.”
“Caro was coming round to the fact of unhappiness: to a realization that Dora created unhappiness and the she was bound to Dora.”
“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”
“Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”