The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.