The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – John Mason Brown

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt