unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing…
Page 111 unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · 15 invaluable laws of growth by John Maxwell.
In the book
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. There's a related danger in the very search: when we hunt happiness too hard we get so busy evaluating our lives that we forget to experience them — and we overrate peak intensity when happiness actually depends more on the frequency of small good moments, and we overrate pleasure at the expense of purpose. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)