The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is also mean and ugly.
What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful to others as a way out of a difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it and increases the total evil of the situation.
What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful to others as a way out of a difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it and increases the total evil of the situation.
-William James
