If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.