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• three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Marriage, Three, Happy Marriage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied.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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• 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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• If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Unhappy Person, Trying

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• Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Life, Men, Treasure

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova (Preface, p. 10 in 2001 translation of Sophie Hawkes and Stephen Sartarelli), 1822.

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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• We're going to have plenty of work to do, but it's going to be a lot easier than here. There'll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more tears, no more crying. That's certainly going to make things easier. We're going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we've had in this life, but we're also going to have something to do. We'd eventually be unhappy if we didn't!

  David Berg

  Pain, Heaven, Sorrow

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• Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

  Alexander Pope

  Sports, Men, Unjust

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.27

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Marriage, Heart, Hands

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Thinking, Two, Four

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

  Michael Tolkin

  Daughter, Monday, Car

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• Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

  Edith Cavell

  Hurt, People, Someday

  The Economist (p. 107), October 15, 2010.

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• I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

  Christopher Owens

  Important, Half, Cobain

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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