Sophie Swetchine Quotes

I had little talent for happiness.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.