If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that being happy is a decision. I don't mean that in a way to diminish clinical depression. But on a more day-to-day level.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.