We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

People don't always need a name.

Despair is something horribly simple.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.

I would want to know that my daughter is going to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.