Unhappiness Quotes - Page 10

• Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Real, Sadness

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• In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Happiness, Struggle Between Good And Evil

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• We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mistake, Effort

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• I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Views, Hands

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.11, 谷月社

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• To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

  Emile Durkheim

  Goal, Unattainable, Definitions

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Worry, May

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• Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Lying, Expectations, Unhappy

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Focus, Denial, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.62, New World Library

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• Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Peace, Heart

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• The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Pain, Identity

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.

  Henri Barbusse

  Believe, Solitude, Doe

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• And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Facts, Increase, Resources

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• we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

  Bill McKibben

  Loneliness, Confusion, Use

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.188, Random House

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• Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stories, Allegory

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• My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Humor, Groups

  Joan Rivers' remarks on BBC 2 (February 23, 1990), as quoted in Elaine Bernstein Partnow "The Quotable Jewish Woman: Wisdom, Inspiration and Humor from the Mind and Heart" (p. 179), April 2004.

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• Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1178, Wordsworth Editions

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• In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Unhappy, World

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5803, e-artnow

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• Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

  Rajneesh

  Positivity, Night, Life And Death

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• The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.

  Andrew Weil

  Happiness, Attitude, Expectations

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• When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happiness, Doubt, Unhappy

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• The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, People, Mad

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• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

  Pema Chodron

  Strength, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

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• Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

  Theodor Reik

  Good Love, Romantic Love, And Love

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• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Happiness, Marriage, Wedding

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

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