"The attitude of unhappiness is not only..." - Quote by William James
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
More by William James
“Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.”
“The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.”
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
More on Unhappiness
“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”
“Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.”
“It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.”