/lit/ - Literature

Lord of the Rings for a good book, overcoming problems with coming together and your archetypal "good vs evil"
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius will make you feel better in terms of rationale
Importance of Being Earnest is funny.

not /lit/

Reading makes me so much happier. Stop being a depressed piece of shit and read any transcendental works. They always cheer me up. Thoreau, Ellen Hooper, etc.

reading is no use here.
be stupid and have good health.

not /lit/
fuck off

>>4047927
just to clarify I meant that reading /lit/ makes me sad not that this thread shouldn't be here

Schopenhauer, it should cure you of the desire to be happy

Steppingwolf

>>4047887
Reading won't help.

You're not supposed to be happy. The people on this website have made that abundantly clear.

>>4048022
Oh, very funny. Just go with the Neverending Story, OP.
>>4048048
I'm happy.

Read my lips: you're gay

>>4048644
I'm happy, I'm carefree and I'm gay.

>>4047887
smoke weed all day.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

>>4048703
>this
blaze it faggot 420 for life

Try Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.

>>4047887
Dao De Jing
or
Meditations (Penguin translation)

Happiness and intelligence are negatively correlated.

Read/listen to McKenna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrw8pPqNaM

I agree with those saying Meditations by Aurelius. Also, The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang was helpful for me. Among other things, it reminded me to enjoy some of life's subtleties that I often took for granted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3hVc2hWYxg

>>4048736
Yes, from what I've noticed, it's those of slightly above average intelligence who rationalize their unhappiness by saying such things. If you're really smart, you will find a way to happiness. If you're unable to do this, you're probably not as intelligent as you think you are, unless of course it's purely clinical depression, in which case I have the utmost empathy for you. There's also the possibility that you're very intelligent and unhappy because you don't value happiness enough to make yourself happy. Personally, reading philosophy and literature has helped me to enjoy myself. I have few friends and little money, yet, from what I can tell, I'm happier than many of the people around me, most of whom have more friends and more money.

>>4048751
Yes, listen to and/or read Alan Watts' stuff. His book The Wisdom of Insecurity was, for me, the most beneficial.

>>4048738
I'll second this and say you should also read Be Here Now by Ram Dass. Pic related.

The Fountainhead

>>4048633
steppenwolf was a serious recommendation

Don't listen to the summer fags

Read Tao Te Ching

>>4048817
>>4048734
Reading the Tao Te Ching doesn't really make you happy guys.

>>4048827
Yes it does

I makes you realize that even if you're the worst person on the planet, no one is greater than you. You live, you die. Bathe in the abyss.

>>4048738
>>4048781

Fuck off and promote his bullshit elsewhere.

>>4048738
Fuck off you dumb hippie

>>4047887
See a therapist, I mean, thats what theyre there for right?

>>4048834

>>4048838
I dont think you understand it.

>>4048841

>>4048851

>Suggests McKenna to make someone happy instead of Watts.

You've quite obviously smoked too much bud to believe his pseudo-intellectual bullshit.

I'd recommend you read "Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality" by Watts.

>>4048851

"Fuckin' blue DMT elves MAAAAAN" - Terrence McKenna

>>4047887
a sterile ice pick applied trans-ocularly.

>>4048817
Zhuangzi works much better friendo.

>>4048739
>The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
This. It's like a self-help book, but written really nicely.

Wodehouse

>>4048953
Listen to this guy. Utter sloth is the answer.

>>4048844

yeah. doesn't always help guy

>>4048953

anyone have a link to a good translation of this? I've been trying to find the AC Graham or Jane English ones but I can't find anything.

Adorno

>>4048703
That works until you run out of money/weed

i read seneca and become happy because he teach to me a way to think and to live full of the biggest valuves that can be on a person. but never read marco aurelio and will go to do it now......

Read some Vonnegut.

>>4049324
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

>>4049405
reading the epictetus will you happier even more

>>4047887

get in shape, lift weight, lift to live

>>4047887

the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

>>4047887
By all means read the things recommended here, but also do sports/exercises.

>>4049329
No link, but honestly, just buy the fucking text. You can't always be such a fucking cheapskate...and this is coming from an unemployed person. A.C. Graham is considered the seminal translation, although not unanimously, but a more recent one, by Brook Zipporyn, is arguably better. I think that Zipporyn is more true to the chinese text, and what's more, he provides a glossary of characters from classical chinese integral to understanding the depth, complexity, and multiple interpretations of what Zhuangzi was really getting at.

If you want a comprehensive text regarding Daoist philosophy, generally, check out Disputers of the Dao. Now THAT is an AC Graham text worth reading.

>>4049504
Or just go for walks. Lower threshold and probably healthier in the long run.

Might I recommend some mindfulness practice? It's been tried in clinical settings with good results and it's pretty non sectarian.

http://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/