Work at learning to have fun. Apply yourself with dedication to learning enjoyment. Work as hard at learning to have fun as you did at feeling miserable.

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

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW]

you can be happy or you can be miserable. It takes the same amount of effort.

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.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Translation: Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

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, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

How can thinking about the misery of others help if you’re miserable yourself