Best Unhappiness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 11

“For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.”

Mind Kind Spirit Certain Creation Hungry Japan Unhappiness

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.”

People Ifs Thinking Unhappiness Like Yourself

Author:Lynn Johnston

“You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.”

Thinking May Stills Character Individual Determine Illness Divorce Unhappiness Thread

Author:James Hillman

“The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."”

Thinking Mean Spirit Fall Language Enemy Groups Ego Harmony Ancient Selfish Rhythm Unhappiness Disharmony

Author:Sharon Gannon

“What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others.”

Unhappiness

Author:Sharon Gannon

“My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.”

People World Self Helping Spiritual Purpose Suffering Interest Consciousness This World Awakening Unhappiness Vehicle Unnecessary Spiritual Awakening Flowering Unnecessary Suffering

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.”

Thinking Knows Hard Enough My Own Subjects Havens Percent Folks Population Significant I've Learned Unhappiness Leap Staggering Fallouts

Author:Keith Murray

“Don't blame yourself for other people's choices, including their choice of unhappiness.”

People Choices Blame Including Unhappiness

Author:Doreen Virtue

“There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.”

Feels States Light Suffering Natural Simple Awareness Complicated Unhappiness Contrast

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.”

Practice Meditation Sorrow Uplifting Unhappiness Lovingkindness

Author:Allan Lokos

“Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.”

Way Unhappiness

Author:Robert Greene

“Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.”

Trying Persons Pain Can Do Realizing Compassion Steps One Thing Unhappiness Going Away Incidents Erase Inadequacy Perpetrators

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.”

“Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.”

Knows Play Nice Boring Unhappiness Layers Being Nice Exhausting

Author:Sandra Bullock

“Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories were about all the pleasant things in life. Since we know our troubles are always coming we want to see in our fiction examples of how others have dealt with them.”

Trouble Conflict Bored Unhappiness

Author:Clarence Major

“I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!”

Together Wish Unhappiness Fed Up Whining

Author:John Cleese

“Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappiness. Particularly those kinds of artists who were writing songs about exactly those things.”

People Writing Kind Artist Song Unhappiness

Author:Greg Mottola

“Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.”

Trying Unhappiness Cynical Being Happy Trying To Be Happy

Book:You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.”

Soul Unhappiness Unrest

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”

Happiness Periods Happy Inner Peace Unhappiness Intervals

Author:Don Marquis

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

Ifs Inspirational Ability Plans Capable Expectations Planning Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.”

War Weapons Music Is Unhappiness

Author:Jason Mraz

“We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.”

Helping Purpose Suffering Causes Unhappiness

Author:Willie Nelson

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.”

World Unhappiness Grants Comical

Book:Endgame and Act Without Words

Source: Endgame and Act Without Words

“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”

People Thinking Wells Seeing Streets Wall Unhappy Our Society Unhappiness Occupy Wall Street

Author:Colin Powell

“Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.”

Wise Words Complaining Unhappy Ruins Unhappiness Complaints Complainers Stop Complaining

Author:Dennis Prager

“From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.”

Years Children Reason Parent Capable Miserable Rely Unhappiness Teenage Teenage Years

Author:Dennis Prager

“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”

People Facts Evil Causes Perfect Century Perfection Unhappiness Conformity Conform Personal Life Twentieth Century Monstrous Utopian Perfect Society

Author:Dennis Prager

“We become moral when we are unhappy.”

Moral Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Marcel Proust

“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”

Happiness Joy Purpose Laughter Unhappiness

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.”

Men Causes Charity Harm Unhappiness Expecting Benevolence Vexation

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.”

And Love Unhappiness Romantic Love Neurosis Basics Good Love Work And Love

Author:Theodor Reik

“My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.”

Humor Funny Audience Groups Therapy Unhappiness Group Therapy

Author:Joan Rivers

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

Spirit Marriage Appreciate Patience Unhappy Bliss Unhappiness

Author:George Santayana

“The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.”

Men Wise Fool Unhappiness Misfortunes Conventions

Author:Franz Schubert

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”

Happiness Quality Objects Depends Philosophical Happy Unhappiness

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”

Thinking Kind Kindness Minutes Bounds Confusion Unhappiness Sixty Confusing Sixty Minutes

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”

Happiness Comfort Unhappy Unhappiness Misfortunes Comforting Always Be Happy You Make Me Happy Misfortunes Of Others

Author:Aesop

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”

“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.”

People World Needs Giving Inspiration Attention This World Capable Unhappy Unhappiness

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”

Happiness Differences Talent Expectations Defined Positive Attitude Unhappiness Great Happiness Self Happiness Negative Attitude Art Of Happiness Positive Expectations

Author:Edward de Bono

“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”

Knows Feels Wells Two Suffering Boys Loneliness Terrible Mountain Jokes Yeah Misery Ems Unhappiness Portions Resorts Elderly Old Jokes Annie Hall Misery And Suffering

Author:Woody Allen

“we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.”

Use Loneliness Tvs Confusion Unhappiness Distress

Book:The Age of Missing Information

Source: The Age of Missing Information

“I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.”

People Feels Real Struggle Politician Unhappiness Suspects Powerless Overwhelmed

Author:Jo Brand

“There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.”

Ifs Self Grows Growing Bears Destruction Seeds Novelists Unhappiness Allowing Self Destruction Self Destruct

Book:Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”

Want Inspirational Happiness Causes Leadership Failure Right Now What You Want Chiefs Unhappiness Trading Effectiveness Joy And Happiness Joy Happiness Happiness And Success Sales Leadership Success Happiness

Author:Zig Ziglar

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

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