Unhappiness Quotes

• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

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• 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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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• The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

  Harold Klemp

  Past, Choices, Today

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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  Don Marquis

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

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  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.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

  Dorothea Brande

  Self, Novelists, Growing

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

  James Thurber

  Kindness, Thinking, Sixty Minutes

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America

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• The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sacrifice, Men, Want

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Horse, Hard Times

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  It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Positive, Happiness, Being Happy

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1417, Barbour Publishing

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• I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• 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?

  Hubert Butler

  Pain, Believe, Sadness

  Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

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• 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.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.

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• Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Unhappy Person, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.261, Bantam

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• There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Childhood, Unhappy

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• Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Positive, Positivity, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.106, Mango Media Inc.

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• 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.

  James Lane Allen

  Success, Attitude, Fall

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• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Deep Thought, World

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

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• The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Men, Doe

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.139 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

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• 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.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Love, Life, Men

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• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Expectations, Unhappy

  As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.

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• All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Facing Reality, Humans

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• Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

  Ken Wilber

  Growing, Mental Illness, Dissatisfaction

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• 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.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Self, Ego

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