Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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