"The only way to avoid being miserable..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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More on Happiness
“With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.”
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”
More on Misery
“A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.”
“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
“Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?”