Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.