Unhappy Quotes - Page 23

• Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Government, Europe, Palestinian

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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

  Joanne Harris

  Hero, Past, People

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• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  Vaclav Havel

  Leadership, Powerful, Hero

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

  Stephane Hessel

  Real, Men, People

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• My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

  Mick Jagger

  Mother, Bricklayers

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• I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

  Alan King

  Giving, Joy, Reviews

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• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Shelter, Comfort, Good Food

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• Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Kids, Years

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• I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing

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• One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

  Demi Lovato

  Years, Trying, Emotion

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.178, Feiwel & Friends

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• The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Thinking, Careers, Knowing

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

  Guy de Maupassant

  People, Unhappy Marriage, Manage

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• An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mother, Children, Doe

  "Both Sides at Last" by Bill Higgins, articles.latimes.com. April 08, 1997.

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• Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

  Moby

  Wake Up, Today, Pounds

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• Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Dark, People

  "The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2011.

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• What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

  Willie Nelson

  Atheism, Made, Changed

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• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Power, Men

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• I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

  Graham Norton

  Miserable

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• I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

  Graham Norton

  Childhood, Pleasant, Upbringing

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• Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Lynching, Law

  "Oates Details Writers' Last Days in 'Wild Nights'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. April 27, 2008.

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• No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

  George Orwell

  Learning, Looks

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Broken, Tea

  "Paul thumps Grayson; Conway edges Mongiardo" by Jack Brammer, www.kentucky.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

  Tyler Perry

  Pain, People, Childhood

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• I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Alexander Pope

  Party, Division, Politics

  Letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 1, p. 247

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