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“Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.”

People Feels Kind Wisdom Lasts Form Suffering Universe Conditions Buddhism Perception Tired Unhappy Finite

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.”

Desire Humanity Conditions Buddhism Prison Unhappy Frustration Humankind Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.”

Way Light Happiness Seeing Conditions Buddhism Shadow Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?”

“Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.”

People Way Feels Causes Conditions Concern Roots Unhappy Alternatives Relate Encounters Affected Unhealthy Root Cause

Author:Edward Norton

“If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.”

Ifs Should Believe Given Situation Conditions Unhappy Unhappiness If You Believe

Author:Seth Godin

“We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.”

Ifs Knows Mind Happiness Time Poor Clear Conditions Depends Happy Unhappy Peaceful Peace Of Mind Always Be Happy Peaceful Mind

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter, and the seed, which our soul, more powerfully than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; being the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.”

Doe Soul Matter Turns Causes Hurt Conditions Please Fortune Seeds Unhappy Sole Sovereign Mistress

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“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.”

Persons Self Earth Hurt Situation Conditions Events Right Now Opposites Unhappy Mess Evident

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.”

Might Pleasure Virtue Fate Conditions Glory Murder Graves Unhappy Disgusting Reign Repetition Emperor Treason Indolence Severity Mildness Roman Emperor

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire