Unhappiness Quotes - Page 8

• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  Don Marquis

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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• Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

  Fanny Burney

  Guests, Return, Misery

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3775, Delphi Classics

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• The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Men, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Self, Ego

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• The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sacrifice, Men, Want

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• All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Facing Reality, Humans

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• I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Expectations, Unhappy

  As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.

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• There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Love, Life, Men

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• There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

  Hubert Butler

  Pain, Believe, Sadness

  Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Men, Doe

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

  George MacDonald

  Summer, Winter, Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Deep Thought, World

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

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• Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Positive, Positivity, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.106, Mango Media Inc.

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Unhappy Person, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.261, Bantam

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• There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Childhood, Unhappy

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• Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

  Ken Wilber

  Growing, Mental Illness, Dissatisfaction

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• Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

  James Lane Allen

  Success, Attitude, Fall

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• Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Sadness, Sky, Creating

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• One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Thinking, Unhappy

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• Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Garden

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.61, Insight Meditation Center

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• The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Order, Unhappy

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• The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Unhappy, Use, Tomorrow

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