Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

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.

A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

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.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

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.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

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.

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.