Happiness cannot be traveled too, owned, earned, won, or consumed.

Five simple rules for happiness
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind of worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more
5. Expect less

"[The secret of] how to live without resentment or
embarrassment in a world in which I am different from
everyone else ... is to be indifferent to that difference."

"Blunt language cannot hide a banal conception"-James Wolcott

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we
are disliked and even hated but for our qualities." ~ Bernard Berenson

some things in life pose as reality -
when in fact, they are only fantasy.
some things claim to be eternal -
but burn out with the next available wind.
some things swear to be trustworthy -
but fail to deliver or stand the test of time.

"A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may
attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being
mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token,
a person whose self is based exclusively on integration
will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality.
Only when a person invests equal amounts of
psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both
selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect
complexity." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi