Unhappy Quotes - Page 18

• Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Genius, Fool

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• Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

  James Dillehay

  Pain, Self, Unhappy Person

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• The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Past, Unhappy Person, Persons

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• No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.

  Anthony de Mello

  Hurt, Self, Opposites

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  Tom Hollander

  Sadness, Brushes, Dylan

  Source: collider.com

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• Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Often Is, Satisfaction, Unhappiness

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• When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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• Your past is always useful to you: If you are happy with your past, you get power from it; if you are unhappy with your past, you take lesson from it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Lessons, Ifs

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• If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Effort, Forgiving

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• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  Conan O'Brien

  Expansion, Groups, Use

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• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  Judith Guest

  Running, People, Missing

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• The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

  Ivan Krastev

  Optimistic, Church, Pessimistic

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• If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Feelings, Acting, Enthusiasm

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

  Christina Ricci

  People, Perfect, Feels

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• Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

  Woody Allen

  Movie Love, Suffering, Too Much

  "Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, People, Messages

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• Anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule." However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead - and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Missing, Pages

  "A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Definitions

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• I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

  Dorothy Parker

  Distance, Sick, Female

  Quoted in Paris Review, Summer 1956

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• You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Class, Firsts, Becoming

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• We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

  Richard Rohr

  Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Needs

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• I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture.

  Harrison Ford

  Strong, Blade Runner, Records

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

  Emile Chartier

  Horror Stories, People, Upset

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• It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

  Emile Chartier

  Waiting, Desire, Doe

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