Unhappiness Quotes - Page 24

• The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

  Robert Ringer

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

  Patti Page

  Song, Joy, Pathos

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

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• A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Destiny, Men, Depends

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• Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Inspirational, Dance, Children

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• They say that to be a writer you must first have an unhappy childhood. I don't know if unhappiness is necessary, but I think maybe some children who have suffered a loss too great for words grow up into writers who are always trying to find those words, trying to find a meaning for the way they have lived

  Cynthia Rylant

  Children, Growing Up, Loss

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• The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Burden Of Proof, Secret

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• People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

  Richard Avedon

  Running, Ambition, People

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• Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sunshine, Greatness, Men

  "Selections from Carlyle".

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• The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  People, Unbearable, Source

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• Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Passion, Thinking

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• The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Jobs, Thinking, Long

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

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• The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.

  Lana Turner

  Grateful, Thinking, Bed Of Roses

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

  Rita Hayworth

  Daughter, Able, I've Learned

  AP report, November 01, 1963.

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• Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

  Joyce Meyer

  Unique, Trying, Persons

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• One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sight

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• Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Miracle, Accomplished, Dissatisfaction

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.209, New World Library

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• Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

  Eckhart Tolle

  Unhappy, Stories, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.107, Penguin

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• The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

  Jim Rohn

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  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 11, 2016

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• The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Evil, Mind

  Achaan Chah, Ajahn Chah (2006). “A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks”, p.48, Buddhist Publication Society

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• A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Heart, Sadness, Remember

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 22, 2015

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• I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

  Laura Marling

  Decision, Important, Accepting

  "Laura Marling: 'Americans - they're just a lot more poetic'". Interview With Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

  Nino Rota

  Happiness, Music, Being Happy

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• If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

  Dennis Prager

  Ifs

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• Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Unhappy, Might, Facts

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Vices, World

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