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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Way, Miserable
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.12, Arthur Schopenhauer

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Happy, Pain

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Happiness, Mistake
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.35, Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Errors, Order
1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.49 (translated by E F J Payne).

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Positive, Happiness, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Sad, Money

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Change, Happiness, Growth
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Evil, Joy
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Pleasure, Repetition
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Way, Looks

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