Not Happy Quotes - Page 3

• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics' (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Home, People, India

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

  Angie Harmon

  Home, Kind, Motto

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• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Shareholders, Ifs, Consequence

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• Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Neighbor, Stills

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Cottages, Safe

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fall, People, Choices

  "Why Men Still Can't Have It All" by Richard Dorment, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2013.

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• I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

  Jim Carrey

  Being Happy, Passion, Careers

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• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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• I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Looks, Mystery, Life Is

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I don't think that comedy is going to affect or change anything. I remember back in 2004 people were like, "How does it feel knowing that you're going to be part of the shifting tide in the political system?" And in the end nothing changed, and we weren't part of anything. And we're not happy anywhere. I think we're kind of hoping, obviously, but it didn't really have a great impact on people.

  Samantha Bee

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you are not happy. But once you achieve a certain level of material satisfaction then income has very little correlation with people's reported states of happiness, things like climate matter more, things like the culture of the country in which you're raised matter more and so the things really, let's face it, like individual temperament matter more than these things.

  Dale Jamieson

  Country, Culture, Done

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

  Ayn Rand

  Teacher, Brother, Home

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.326, Penguin

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• If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Feel Better, Order, Way

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Happy, Teacher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

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• I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Happy Love, World, Invincible

  "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 2004.

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• A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader -- is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Compassion, Blood

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• You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

  Maat Morrison

  Feels

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• On an airplane, you are always told to put on your own oxygen mask first. The same way in life, you need to take care of your health first. If you are not happy and healthy, you cannot make anyone else happy and healthy.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Airplane, Oxygen, Way In Life

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• You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

  Jung Chang

  People, Scar, Better Life

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• In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

  James Bryce

  Dream, Nature, Europe

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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