We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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!
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.