He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.