Don’t desire happiness because it creates only unhappiness and nothing else.Tears are far more beautiful than anything that you have with you, because tears come from the overflow of your being. OshoIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. Toni Morrison (Sula)Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich NietzscheHow to be unhappy: stay inside all day, move as little as possible, spend more than you earn, take yourself (and life) too seriously, look for reasons why things won’t work, always consume, never contribute, resent the lucky and successful, never say hello first, be unreliable. James ClearFriendship = vulnerability * time. If loneliness is epidemic, this seems like an important part of the fix. Sahil LavingiaIf you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially and morally bankrupt. Naval RavikantThe perfected future never arrives. Life is full of seemingly endless trouble, and then life ends. Find peace in the imperfect present. The Stoic EmperorPerhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you? Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane AustenLove is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. Leonard CohenNever be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life. OshoThere are two medicines for all ills: time and silence. Alexander DumasFor even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Alain De BottonBlaming other people for things that are going wrong guarantees your continued misery. Justin KanHeaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl JungThe opposite of love is indifference. Shane ParrishIt’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry RollinsChasing happiness is guaranteed to make to you unhappy. Ed LatimoreTears are words the heart can’t express. Gerard WayWhen you lose, do not lose the lesson. 14th