Albert Einstein was a man who continues to inspire people of all generations. Now, two advice notes the physicist wrote on the theory of happiness was sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $ 1.56 million.
Back in 1922, Einstein was traveling to Japan and met a courier in Tokyo to whom he gave the notes.
The Nobel Prize winner told the messenger if he was lucky the notes would someday be valuable.
Although Einstein spent his entire life devoted to science, the notes suggest striving for a long term goal will not guarantee happiness.
The interesting part about this story is that Albert Einstein gave the courier the notes because he had no money to tip him.
Both the notes were written in German, the first translated to, “A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.”
The second note read, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
The nephew of the messenger was the one who put the notes up for auction.
