Unhappy Quotes - Page 16

• I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls.

  Rob Reiner

  Kids, People, Halls

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Six

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• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  Conan O'Brien

  Expansion, Groups, Use

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• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  Judith Guest

  Running, People, Missing

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• If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

  Patrick Dixon

  Simple, Price Tag, Secret

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• The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

  Ivan Krastev

  Optimistic, Church, Pessimistic

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• If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Feelings, Acting, Enthusiasm

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

  Anthony Doerr

  Unhappy Person, People, Different

  Anthony Doerr (2011). “Memory Wall: Stories”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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• People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

  Christina Ricci

  People, Perfect, Feels

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• Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

  Woody Allen

  Movie Love, Suffering, Too Much

  "Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fate, Might, Reign

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.75

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• People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, People, Messages

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• Anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule." However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead - and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Missing, Pages

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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• I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

  Liza Minnelli

  Grateful, Looks, Next

  "Super trouper" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 05, 2006.

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• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Definitions

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• The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.

  Klaus Nomi

  Kids, People, Looks

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• I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Distance, Sick, Female

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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• You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Class, Firsts, Becoming

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• Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.

  Laozi

  Long, Appreciate, Giving

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• I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Decision

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• If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

  Michael Dell

  Very Good, Deals, Conform

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• I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

  Lauryn Hill

  Wanted

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• We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

  Richard Rohr

  Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Needs

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