"Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too."

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Source : Lee Goldberg (2011). “Mr. Monk on the Couch”, p.49, Penguin

#Doe Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.17, BookBaby
“Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”
“I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.”
“Iâ€™ve always tried to be independent. Itâ€™s just my personality. Iâ€™ve always been the type to motivate the camp. Iâ€™ve always wanted to be the fuel for somethingâ€”for music, the fuel for my family, the fuel for my best friend. Helping someone with what Iâ€™m doing.”
“My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.”
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
“Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”

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