Unhappiness Quotes

• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

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• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

  Dorothea Brande

  Self, Novelists, Growing

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Goal, Creative, Negative

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.19, Penguin

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• When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Decision, Teeth

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• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Happiness, Happy, Being Yourself

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.204, Penguin

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• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  Graham Greene

  Children, Dark, Tunnels

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Beckett, Endgame

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nice, Play, Layers

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Grants, Comical

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

  Douglas Coupland

  Use, Taught, Plan B

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• To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Jobs, Done

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• The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

  Polly Toynbee

  Years, Stronger, Lasts

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

  Lulu

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Source, Pursuit

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

  William John Locke

  Courage, Believe, Army

  William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.470, Library of Alexandria

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• I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  People, Compare, Realised

  "Portrait of the artist: Marcus Brigstocke, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2007.

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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• Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, People

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

  Robert Greene

  Way

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• Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Harmony

  Oldiees Publishing, James Allen (2015). “The Book of Discipline: Out From the Heart - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT”, p.16, Oldiees Publishing

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• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

  Lauren Oliver

  Happiness, Bad Day, Happy Times

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.24, Harper Collins

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