Money doesn't make unhappy unless happiness is thrust way beyond the realms of possibility due to a desperate obsession or a frantic addiction. (βRocking and rolling β)
Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: βWe made our own happiness but I donβt think we were a happy family.
Henrietta was bitter. Nothing in her life had turned out well. Like everyone else, she had striven all her life to achieve happiness. Yet it seemed to her that she had never been happy.
Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?
Most people are unhappy since they fail to get what they want in life. However, even when they actually get what they want, their happiness is short-lived because very soon they raise the bar to a higher level and again start struggling to achieve the next level. Their happiness level thus comes back to the original level as before.
Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.
Some of the people who we envy for having something we lack envy us for lacking something they have.
If you are unhappy, Itβs up to you to decide and move ahead. Itβs up to you to make a change!
Crediting someone for your unhappiness is about not taking responsibility yourself.
The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.