Quote by Donna Tartt

“The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.”

— Criss Jami

“Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy?”

— Julian Fellowes

“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“The question we must ask for ourselves is: Are we going to be miserable just because other people are?”

— Ryan Holiday

“Trying to live up to what everyone else thinks and wants for you is a recipe for perpetual anxiety, self-doubt, and a generally unhappy…

— Valorie Burton

“Often it’s the lure of happiness that makes us unhappy.”

— Claudia Serrano

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I think we go about desiring things all day long, and then wondering why we’re unhappy.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.”

— Sam Harris

“The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.”

— Larry Winget

“...if you're unhappy whenever other people don't picture you exactly the same way you picture yourself, that's already dooming yourself to always be unhappy.…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky