Unhappiness Quotes
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
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It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
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There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the baron's concerned gaze, and said, "Keep the money. I have her. She's all I want.
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Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
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Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
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Unhappiness was my god.
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If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.
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The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
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The thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
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If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
