Adolescence attracts me not for the happiness I had, but for the happiness I believed I could have.
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Desire
The easiest odds of happiness lie not with what we love most, but with what we love most uniquely.
Passions need a pinch of apathy to slow them down to the pace of enjoyment.
Happiness is the pursuit of nothing.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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