Pastoral Resources

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

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.

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.

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

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

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

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

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

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

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.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.