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

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: “The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

One should not want to be anything but what one is, because it creates unhappiness.

Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Don't spend you life making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem.

You can’t save the world, so don’t sacrifice your happiness trying.’

Being unable to overcome death, misery, and uncertainty, men have agreed, in order to be happy, not to think about them.