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“People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.”

Trying Matter Happiness Practice Five Minutes Buddhism Bigger Unhappy Miserable Five Minutes Stop Trying Your Smile Just Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.”

Happiness Results Busy Miserable Too Busy

Author:Paul Frank Baer

“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”

Happiness Wish Happy Miserable

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

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Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.”

Ifs Hands Happiness Hate All Things Envy Miserable Resentment

Author:Fay Weldon

“You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.”

Thinking Happiness Imagine Miserable

Author:Mason Cooley

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”

“Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.”

People Happiness Expectations Miserable

Author:Simone Elkeles

“The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”

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Book:Up from Slavery: Top Biography

Source: Up from Slavery: Top Biography

“Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.”

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Author:John Lennon

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

Way Happiness Miserable Very Happy

Book:Counsels and Maxims

Source: Counsels and Maxims

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

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Author:Carlos Castaneda