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• Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

  Amity Gaige

  Past, Waiting, Care

  Amity Gaige (2013). “Schroder”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

  Lewis Carroll

  Jokes, Ifs

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass JESUK147”, p.17, Classic Comic Store Ltd.

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• When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunshine, Fog, Feels

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• I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

  Bipasha Basu

  Laughing, Cynical, Being Positive

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• When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is it?" But when the human becomes animal, the effect is disgusting, and if we laugh at all, then it is what Beckett calls the "mirthless laugh", which laughs at that which is unhappy.

  Simon Critchley

  Animal, Hunting, Laughing

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• The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Survival, Desire

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• Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.

  Michael Yates

  Country, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.

  Joel Osteen

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

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• The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

  Michael J. Fox

  Acceptance, Expectations, Finding Peace

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• Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Thinking, Sometimes, Working It

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

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• Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It’s only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Sick, Matter

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• Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

  Henry James

  Dream, Strong, Believe

  Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people, to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good. It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented. It is right that a victor in war be received with funeral ceremonies.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  War, Thoughtful, People

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Jerome P. Seaton (2009). “Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Discovery, Tears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Pieces, Realizing

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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Grief, Unhappy Person

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• Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Vanity, Curiosity, Compromise

  "Briefe von und an Hegel, Volume 4". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1977.

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• Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bread Of Life, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Too Much, Should

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fool, Reason, Authority

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.263

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Believe

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.133, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Happiness, Money

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mysterious, Unhappy Family

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

  E. Nesbit

  Sorry, Love You, Mean

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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