Being is the great explainer.
Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands. . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.
Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
We are addicted to being the way we are
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune. . . . Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy. . . . Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy
What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
Happiness takes work. It doesn't always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn't fall prey to being sad. I don't want sad, I can't be sad, I don't want to be about sad; I avoid sad. It inherently envelops you, so do everything that you can to escape it all the time.
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.
