Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

If this is a dream, may we never wake up!

Joy in your heart is better than bitterness in your soul.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.