Quote by Tom Robbins

“Tis no mean happiness to be seated in the mean.”

— William Shakespeare

“It is no mean happiness...to be seated in the mean”

— William Shakespeare

“happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean”

— Aristotle

“the kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments”

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness.”

— Graham Greene

“Every piece of happiness requires mistiness.”

— Kangoma Kindembo

“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.”

— Patrick O'Brian

“Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“So it is that we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused...”

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken…

— Susie Finkbeiner

“Our reactions to unhappiness can transform what might otherwise be a brief, passing sadness into persistent dissatisfaction and unhappiness.”

— J. Mark G. Williams