Profound

Actual happiness looks pretty squalid

in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.
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...stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability.
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...being contented has none of the glamor of a good fight against misfortune,

none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation,

or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.
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Happiness is never grand.
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Aldous Huxley