The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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 choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.
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