Not Happy Quotes - Page 9

• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

  Solon

  Happiness, Men, Lucky

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• I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

  David Collenette

  Thinking, Needs, Firearms

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• Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.55, Penguin

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• Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

  Richard Bach

  Simple, Flying, Rooms

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• If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.

  Donna Tartt

  Prerequisites, Ifs

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• Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Stars, Heart

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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• The love and peace of higher consciousness flow from just being - and enjoying it all. Anything you do will not be enough unless you feel fulfilled in just being. Usually we are not happy when we find doing whatever it is that we think we have to do. Doing creates expectations that your world and the people around you may or may not fit. The things we do disappear in time. We must learn to appreciate just being alive in the nowness of whatever situation we are in.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Running, Memories, Issues

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• We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, People, Balance

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• When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Thinking

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• How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

  Nicholas Lore

  Successful, Ifs

  "Job Satisfaction vs. a Big Paycheck" by Phyllis Korkki, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.

  Robertson Davies

  Long Ago, Years, Mind

  "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1947.

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• Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases

  David Brin

  Wall, Fall, Hands

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• Of course I miss playing for Manchester United. I played there for six years and that’s a long time. I am still interested in watching Manchester United and, you never know, maybe in the future I could return to play there. It’s always possible. I want to fulfil my contract here but, in the future, only God knows. I will not say I am not happy here at Real Madrid. I am really happy and everyone knows this is my club but, of course, I miss Manchester United, the boss, the players, because I left family there.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Real, Player, Years

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• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Men, White Man

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• I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices ... Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself ... Do something!

  Hillary Clinton

  Fall, Long, People

  "Is This Really Goodbye?" by Ayelet Waldman, www.marieclaire.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

  Helen Clark

  Life Is Too Short, Roles, Passionate

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always been a workout type guy. So if I'm feeling down or I'm not happy with something, I go to the gym and I get a shot of energy. If things don't go well in any aspect of my life, I'm going to the gym and I'm going to shoot. That's my one type of place that's a safe haven where I go and it's just me, the basketball and the hoop, and I'm just doing something I love to do.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Basketball, Workout, Safe Haven

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. February 15, 2015.

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

  Alan Arkin

  Two, Three, Busy

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• I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

  John Otway

  Thinking, People, Done

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• The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

  George Orwell

  War, Home, Scotland

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• Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

  Chris Coleman

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Typewriters, Miserable, Desks

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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