Unhappy Quotes - Page 5

• The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Men, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

  Lars Ulrich

  Trying, Metallica

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

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• To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Ideas, Forever, Suffering

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• Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Two

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• They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ghetto, Buddhism

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• What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Ideas

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• This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Practice

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• By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Becoming, Sometimes, Unhappiness

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• Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Niece, Butterfly, Today

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Goal, Bored, Anticipation

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• Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?

  Shantideva

  Psychics, Empowerment, Helping

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• If you have a problem with the Moon in the sky and you are unhappy, change yourself, because the Moon won't change!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moon, Sky, Problem

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• Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

  Gina McCarthy

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

  Solomon Northup

  Tired, Happy Life, Sorrow

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.76, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

  Christopher Bram

  Kids, Gay, Boys

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• Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

  Jean Genet

  Profound, Solitude, Secret

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

  Magnus

  Moving, Kids, Happy Kid

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• We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.

  Craig Biggio

  Memories, Children, School

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• You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

  Gena Rowlands

  Death, Husband, Self

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• I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. March 07, 2013.

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• When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

  Steve McFadden

  Dog, Children, Kids

  "EastEnd Boy". www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2001.

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• With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

  Yishan Wong

  Thinking, Yes You Can, People

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• O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!

  Ogden Nash

  Home, Differences, Incompetence

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