The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.
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