“It is by being content that one chooses to live unhappy.”

“A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.”

“Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.”

“Happiness is the illusion of being happy, unhappiness is the fear of being it. A little bit of fear helps you to live in the light, too much strangles you in the dark.”

“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”

“Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.”

“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”

“They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.”

“… there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.”

“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”