For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.