I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.
I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.
The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.
I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.