Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.