A recommended loan from a friend, and yes, I had a good read and learnt several important lessons about happiness quoted from the novel.
Lesson No. 1: Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
Lesson No. 2: Happiness often comes when least expected.
Lesson No. 3: Many people see happiness only in their future.
Lesson No. 4: Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.
Lesson No. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.
Lesson No. 6: Happiness is a long walk in beautiful, unfamiliar mountains.
Lesson No. 7: It’s a mistake to think that happiness is a goal.
Lesson No. 8: Happiness is being with the people you love.
Lesson No. 8b: Unhappiness is being separated from the people you love.
Lesson No. 9: Happiness is knowing your family lacks for nothing.
Lesson No. 10: Happiness is doing a job you love.
Lesson No. 11: Happiness is having a home and a garden of your own.
Lesson No. 12: It’s harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.
Lesson No. 13: Happiness is to be loved for exactly who you are.
Lesson No. 14: People are kinder to a child who smiles.
Lesson No. 15: Happiness comes when you feel truly alive.
Lesson No. 16: Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.
Lesson No. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.
Lesson No. 18: Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.
Happiness is not attaching too much importance to what other people think.
Lesson No. 19: The sun and the sea make everybody happy.
Lesson No. 20: Happiness is a certain way of seeing things.
Lesson No. 21: Rivalry poisons happiness.
Lesson No. 22: Women care more than men about making others happy.
Lesson No. 23: Happiness means making sure that those around you are happy?
UPDATE:
Omg they’re making a movie out of this book! Coolios!
I’m gonna catch it!
Lynn says:
I like how you cross out Lesson Number 18. It raised my eyebrows as well.
July 21, 2014 — 3:49 pm
Kaiyi says:
Haha the author crossed it out, not me. But yah, that part is quite messed up.
July 22, 2014 — 12:09 am