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Basically, having a gift for happiness was a bit like being good at maths or games: it depended partly on the development of the brain after you were born, ad even before, but also on how your parents or other adults had brought you up when you were ...

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Adeline was really rather charming, she always had a man in her life, but it never worked out: either they were nice but she didn't find them very exciting; or they were exciting but she didn't find them particularly nice, or they were neither nice n...

Hector and the Search for Happiness

He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Some people, very many actually, both men and women, complained of having enjoyed a very loving relationship with someone, but of no longer feeling the same way despite still being very fond of that person, with whom they generally lived.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Many people see happiness only in their future.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Lesson no. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

Hector and the Search for Happiness

He looked at Hector's list and told him that, thanks to a lot of studies and calculations, they'd shown that if you compared yourself to others and didn't find yourself wanting, if you had no money or health problems, if you had friends, a close-knit...

Hector and the Search for Happiness

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whethe...

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about p...

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.

Hector and the Search for Happiness