Everyone must philosophize. Live your thought and think about your life. To think seriously is to do philosophy. Literature is melancholic, philosophy is tonic. Blaise Pascal said "All men seek happiness, even of those who hang themselves.". We easily mistake happiness for felicity, wholeness, and satisfying desires. Happiness is the opposite of misfortune while misfortune is being unable to conceive joy, so happiness is the ability to conceive joy. To be happy, fight misfortune. You can't make other people happy as they should be on their own without making you responsible for when their unhappy. Your few happiest moments may occur alone and last for a few seconds but will change you forever. Eternity is now, we already are in heaven. Kids can't be happy if their parents aren't. Illusion leads disillusionment which leads to unhappiness. People kill themselves because they are disappointed from life but the problem isn't life, the problem is people's expectations. To love truly, stop hoping. Expectations lead to dissatisfaction. When you suck at living, you must excel at philosophy. Being wise is being both happy and lucid. Prefer real sadness over fake happiness. Life isn't a drama but tragedy because we know how it ends: we are all going to die. You can't love life if you don't accept that it'll end. Every moment is the most precious thing. Eros is the type of love you felt for your spouse before you got married, after which it turned to philia because the lack of someone was replaced by the joy from his presence. Everyone can desire what they don't have, fewer people can be delighted from they already have. Do you love someone or an illusory version of them? Fidelity isn't exclusivity: you can have many friends, ideas, and lovers. Fidelity is remembering what is, was, and will always be. Children is the father of men, we have to accept what we didn't choose to live earlier on. Parental advice matters more than the example they set: you'll become great if you're surrounded by greatness. A child must know that his mother will always love him and that his father will always be more powerful than him. A great life isn't a successful life but a life full of love. If you can't forgive people, you aren't an adult yet. Noboby will love you as much as your parents did, meaning that your strongest love will always be behind you. Parents love is unconditional because it is conditioned by blood. Focus on your will rather than your dreams as the latter means your asleep. Find pleasure in the action, not the outcome. Grief is over when you conceive joy again.
André Comte-Sponville