Generally speaking, envy, resentment, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts.Self-pity gets fairly close to paranoia, and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.