Constancy Quote by Epictetus

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

— Epictetus

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

— David Hume

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

— Publilius Syrus

“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your…

— Tom Robbins

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

— Alexander Pope

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

— Berthold Auerbach

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more…

— Andre Gide

He who makes others happy at the cost of his own happiness remains sad but contented.

— Oluwole Tobi

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start…

— Tom Robbins

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control,…

— Irving Babbitt