Browsing Topic Best Not Happy Quotes

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I am not happy with moral victories. Those things are forgotten.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you’re not happy. And you don’t really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don’t think you really need to be explicit.

You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

I’m not happy. I’m not happy at all.

I suppose I’m happy to sell my time and energy, but I’m not happy to sell my initial creative time.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it’s because they’re not happy doing what they’re doing.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won’t bring you much satisfaction.

We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn’t want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn’t either.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I’m pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.

You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.

That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, not mine, not my friends’. That’s probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.

Here’s kind of my motto – if you’re not happy at home, you’re not happy anywhere else.

The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.

Men die and they are not happy.

Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don’t care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

When you’re not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.

You may have good relationships and you may have bad. You just have to roll with it and truly believe, and not be cynical. But, it’s hard. You go through four relationships where you’re not happy and you’ve been cheated on, or whatever – and I’m not saying this has happened to me – but you have to still believe.

TV is a very sensitive thing. If you’re not happy with what you’re doing, I don’t think you should do it because you will do it for awhile.

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

I’m not happy with just repeating myself.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.