Unhappiness Quotes - Page 15

• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Knowing, Silence

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• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

  B. C. Forbes

  Army, Selfishness, Humans

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• Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

  Martin Luther

  Blessed, Unhappy, Gods Will

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• We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

  Sharon Gannon

  Causes, Ifs

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• Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Conditioning, Arise

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.34, New World Library

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• Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

  Alfred Doblin

  Listening To Others, Different, Habit

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• We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Party, Two, Mind

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.28, Rodale

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• Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Giving, Unhappy

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• Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Choices, Causes

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.473

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• Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

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• If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Feelings

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• The cure for unhappiness is happiness,
  I don't care what anyone says.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Care, Cures, I Don't Care

  Elizabeth McCracken (2001). “Niagara Falls All Over Again”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Talking, Listening, Unhappy

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.15, Zondervan

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• It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.

  Melanie Thernstrom

  School, Unhappy, Sawdust

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• You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

  Carole L. Glickfeld

  Unhappy, Flow, States

  Carole L. Glickfeld (2001). “Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.

  Anne Enright

  Hate, Games, Play

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• Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Envy, Unhappy

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.307, Hachette UK

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• There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

  P. D. James

  Couple, Unhappy, Proud

  P.D. James (2012). “Unnatural Causes”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

  William Hartston

  Pain, Victory, Chess

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• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

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• The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

  Robert Ringer

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sight

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• I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

  Patti Page

  Song, Joy, Pathos

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

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• If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

  Dennis Prager

  Ifs

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• Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

  Grant Cardone

  People, Expectations, Suffering

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Dec 20, 2016

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