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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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.
Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.
When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
I don’t believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else… finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
The more we complain, the more unhappy we get
Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility… Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault… Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.
Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
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.
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.
Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia’s richest men; they don’t like the sanctions; they don’t like the war with the West. Many of them have houses and families and businesses in the West, and so I can see them being unhappy. But at the moment, the political system is so constructed that it would be very difficult for them to leave. That’s not saying it couldn’t change.
The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.
I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him…to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good.
Some cry: ‘Love me!!’ Others: ‘Don’t love me!!’ But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: ‘Don’t love me and be faithful to me!!’