Unhappy Quotes - Page 15

• By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Parent, Attention

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• It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

  Christina Ricci

  Sarcastic, Real, Teenager

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• We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Weed, Encouragement, Believe

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 27, 2014

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• No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.

  Francoise Gilot

  Thinking, Nurse, Suffering

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• Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

  Laura Wasser

  Children, Couple, Together

  "'It Doesn't Have to Be That Way': How to manage a hassle-free divorce" by Laura Wasser, www.today.com. October 2, 2013.

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• When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing--or maybe greatness is the thing we want to have so that other people will want to have us, or maybe greatness is merely the grail for our unhappy, striving selves, the thing we think we need but don't and can't get anyway.

  Brock Clarke

  Father, Boys, Greatness

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• Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Men, Calm

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• Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Men

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• Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Genius, Fool

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• It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

  Mary Harron

  Moving, Ideas, Fabulous

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Artist, Thinking

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Keys

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• If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

  Epictetus

  Men, Faults, Remember

  Epictetus (1900). “Discourses ...”

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• The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Unhappy Person, Persons

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

  Anthony de Mello

  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

  Lauren Alaina

  Winning, People, Position

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• Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

  Lee Clow

  Mean, People, Pressure

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• I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.

  Matt Nix

  Mean, People, Sound

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  Tom Hollander

  Sadness, Brushes, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

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• Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Satisfaction, Unhappiness

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• The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Personality, Environmental

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Goodness, Very Happy, Valuable

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• When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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• Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Lessons, Ifs

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• If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Effort, Forgiving

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