I'll never be happy, how can you love me, I'm awful, I'm covered with spiders, I'm <i>doomed</i>.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

"I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived."

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

In the latter case, he consumes his life in grief, or the affectation of it; his prayers are reproaches; his humility is ingratitude; he calls himself a worm, and the fertile earth a dunghill; and all the blessings of life by the thankless name of vanities; he despises the choicest gift of God to man, the GIFT OF REASON; and having endeavored to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason, as if man could give reason to himself.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative. So Buddha says if you are destructive you will be miserable.If you are envious, infatuated, competitive, ambitious, jealous, possessive, you will be in misery.

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In Buddhist terminology there is nothing like sin, only mistakes, errors. There is no condemnation. You can correct the error, you can correct the mistake. It is simple.

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One has to leave the parents, one has to leave the home, one has to leave the past. one has to become totally independent, alone....trembling in that aloneness, but one has to become alone. One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then only can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others, your very dependence will not allow you to understand who you are.

Expectations are what destroy happiness — whether it’s in our relationships, with our kids, or with our work. Expectations are why so many people are so unhappy today, even in a world with so much abundance.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

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