“It only takes one thing to make you unhappy.”

“One of the things I'd learned… was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.”

“Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing,
It's always pleasant when you spot it,
There's only one unhappy thing:
You have to lose to prove you've got it.”

“To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

“He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that
doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.”

“Sometimes the things you want are hard to take
Sometimes the ones you love are risks that you don't make.”

“When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.”

“You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.”