Unhappiness Quotes - Page 6

• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, May

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• People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Forgiving, Hard To Forgive

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• If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

  Sean Covey

  Lynching, Choices, Flow

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Love You, Heart

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2866, Delphi Classics

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• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  Nina Berberova

  Passion, Joy, Feelings

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• Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Light

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• Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

  Ann Brashares

  Happiness, Lonely, Thinking

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• What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Loss, Names, Giving

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• I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Broken, Trying

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving, Shapes

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• The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Self, Knowing

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• I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Long, Doubt

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

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• Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Pain, Compassion, Going Away

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

  Steve Goodier

  Feel Better, People, Laughing

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• Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Mean, Rude, Unhappy

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• Misery generates hate.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Misery

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Land, Cheerful

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.306, Univ of California Press

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• One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

  Kage Baker

  School, Taught Us, Unnecessary

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan

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• I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

  Mary Lasswell

  Dimes, Legs, Feels

  Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

  Iris Murdoch

  Real, Cutting, Suffering

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.127, Penguin

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• Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation? This is what scares people. These folks think that to accept the reality of karma one must be passive. It simply isn't true. Karma is active. We can - in the blink of an eye - make decisions that will shape our futures and transform the parts of our lives that are causing us unhappiness.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Eye, Reality

  Mary T. Browne (2013). “The Power of Karma: How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future”, p.1, Harper Collins

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