Conception Quote by Alain de Botton

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

— David Hume

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

— Anonymous

“Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead…

— Pamela H. Hansen

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own…

— Samuel Johnson

Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

— Barbara De Angelis

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next…

— Megyn Kelly

“The mistake that people make in the focusing illusion involves attention to selected moments and neglect of what happens at other times. The mind…

— Daniel Kahneman

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the…

— Samuel Smiles

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But…

— Bernhard Schlink

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce