Unhappy Quotes - Page 40

• I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

  Jung Chang

  Thinking, Past, People

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• There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye

  Marvin Gaye

  Real, People, Laughing

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• God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

  John Henry Newman

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Henry Newman (1900). “The Works of Cardinal Newman”

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• The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Art, Spring, Passion

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

  Stewart Brand

  Way

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• Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Football, Dear Lord, America

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• Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

  William Henry Hudson

  Life, Art, Nature

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• When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Hurt, Thinking

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• I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

  Jim Shepard

  Boys, Unseen, Festivals

  Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage

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• Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Service Culture, Focus

  "Zappos Milestone: Q&A With Tony Hsieh". Footwear News Interview, footwearnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Action, States

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• The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

  Manuel Puig

  Thinking, Feelings, Feeling Happy

  "Fictional character: Luis Molina". "Kiss of the Spider Woman", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

  Byron Katie

  Achieve, Wells

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• If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

  Marian Seldes

  Thinking, Trust Yourself, Don't Trust

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

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• The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

  Michael Pollan

  Happy Life, Thinking, Triumph

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.39, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

  Nancy Mitford

  Paris, Joy, Here And There

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.146, Vintage

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• You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.

  Jeff Bezos

  Important, Needs, Shame

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

  Jacob Zuma

  Forever, Luck, Ancestor

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• What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

  Steven Pressfield

  Convinced

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.30, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
  Dancing a ring-around in glee
  From furrow to furrow, while overhead
  The foam flies up to be garlanded,
  In silvery arches spanning the air,
  Saw you my true love anywhere?
  Welladay! Welladay!
  For the winds of May!
  Love is unhappy when love is away!

  James Joyce

  Love Is, Air, Wind

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2037, Delphi Classics

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• If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

  Lin Yutang

  Moving, Bowels, Ifs

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Suffering, Problem, Unhappiness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.122, New World Library

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• If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Hands, Use, Imperfect

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• When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

  Barbara La Marr

  Heart, Cat, Useless

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• It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

  Frank Luntz

  Passion, Emotional, Vacation

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