Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment

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.

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

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.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive read more

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, read more

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy read more

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.