If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
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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!
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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