You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job..

Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inve….

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment..

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience..

The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same so….

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a crimi….

By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand,….

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others..

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves..

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing..

You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can….

You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it ….

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germ….

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends..

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living ….

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction..

There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is gettin….