Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Some people just aren't meant to be happy.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.
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