The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
When a mother quarrels with a daughter she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness but enables us to move back from it a little.
And in fact you can find that the lack of basic resources material resources contributes to unhappiness but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.
Happiness is a real objective phenomenon scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.