The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.
Some people just aren't meant to be happy.
It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.