Unhappy Quotes - Page 31

• All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

  Timothy Leary

  Moving, Suffering, Where You Are

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• I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.

  Aisha Tyler

  Growing Up, Kids, College

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• Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Sadness, Sky, Creating

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• An unhappy life is a life not lived.

  Dennis Prager

  Happy Life, Life Is, Unhappy Life

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• If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Humanity, Balance

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• To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas.

  Jean Meslier

  Believe, Eye, Men

  Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Order, Feet

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• Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.

  Garrison Wynn

  Worry, Problem, Symptoms

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• I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

  Jerry Garcia

  Pain, Thinking, Alive

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• Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

  Coco Chanel

  Regret, People, Handicaps

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• I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Years, Goal, Honor

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• In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

  Cesar Chavez

  Food, Animal, Meat

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• I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.

  Clara Schumann

  Art, Wish, Atheism

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• Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

  Catherine the Great

  Heart, Doe, Spirit

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• It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

  Thomas Malthus

  Law, Unhappy Person, Suffering

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Aron Ralston

  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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• I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

  Patrick Gale

  Memories, Worry, Done

  Patrick Gale (2010). “Rough Music”, p.359, Ballantine Books

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• It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.

  Louis Menand

  Doe, Earth, Way

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• Sri Krishnamacharya used to tell me: 'Do the Headstand when you are tired and in need of a tonic; when you are unable to fall asleep; when you are hungry, nervous and unhappy. Do it when in need of relaxation, when the brain is clouded, when you are in low spirits. Do it when your thoughts are distracted and you cannot concentrate properly or meditate.'

  Indra Devi

  Fall, Tired, Relaxation

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• Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, Blessed, Sacrifice

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• What we preach is what we get. We are farmers sowing seed. If we are unhappy with the harvest we’re reaping, we should sow different seed. If we want different results, we preach different messages.

  Phil Pringle

  Sowing, Different, Want

  Phil Pringle (2013). “You The Leader”, p.199, Faris Digital Solutions

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• I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery & unspeakable beauty. We like forests & mountains, deserts & hidden rivers, & lonely cities. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know.

  James Kavanaugh

  Lonely, Laughter, Ocean

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• Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.

  Bill Loguidice

  Laughing, Hardest

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• Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

  James Altucher

  Winning, People, Want

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• Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

  Dale Carnegie

  Jesus, Heaven, Feelings

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.77, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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