Quote of the day by JS Mill: 'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires...'

John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century philosopher who argued that true happiness comes from developing the mind A shopper standing in the middle of a brightly lit superstore, holding three slightly different versions of the same household item, often feels an odd sense of confusion rather than freedom. The endless scroll of online stores promises that the perfect product to complete life is just one click away. Yet, as packages keep arriving at the door, the promised happiness often disappears, replaced by a lingering desire for whatever comes next.This cycle of endless consumption is exactly what the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill described when he wrote: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”Mill’s observation completely changes the usual idea of finding happiness. Instead of seeing human desire as an endless list of needs that must be fulfilled, he argued that desire itself is what needs to be controlled. Satisfaction, in his view, does not come from building a bigger net to catch every passing impulse, but from reducing what we expect and demand from the world.The breakdown of a calculating mindJohn Stuart ...