The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!
Life is too short to be miserable.
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.