No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love

Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anythingin this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we read more

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly read more

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations