Lisa Kleypas Quotes

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

I had little talent for happiness.

Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.

I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

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

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

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.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.