What would you put on a billboard?
What would you put on a billboard? “Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want“.
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Tools of Titans
In the book
The receding horizon. If you keep looking to the future for your happiness, you'll always have the possibility of it and never the thing itself — you never actually arrive. Desire, chased blindly, becomes "a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want". And the deepest version of the trap is this: unhappiness is often nothing more than not knowing what you really want and killing yourself to get it anyway. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)