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“It does not in the least concern me whether I shall have at the end of my life thirty people who understand or three hundred. I am like an artist who paints a picture because he must, otherwise he is unhappy - not unhappy, but he must obey that creative impulse.”

People Doe Ends Artist Three Creative Hundred Concern Paint Unhappy Impulse Thirty

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.”

“Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.”

Winning Argument Unhappy

Author:Colin Powell

“When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.”

Ifs Needs Should Kind Mean Doe Suffering Courses Can Do Cases Worry Circumstances Behavior Abuse Injustice Unhappy No Point Can Do Something Adverse

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.”

People Want Facts Next Interest Creating Capitalism Unhappy Acquire Vested Interests

Author:Philip Kotler

“Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.”

Way Play Hands Form Found Painting Unhappy Intensity Translate Imagery Decoration Pottery Spacing

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Then [Catholics] owe [pope] the loyalty that is expressed in speaking the truth to him - and that puts a premium on knowing whether what you're happy about, on unhappy about, has a basis in fact, or is merely a reflection of the "narrative.”

Facts Knowing Reflection Bases Catholic Loyalty Unhappy Narrative Pope Speak The Truth Premium

Author:George Weigel

“If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.”

School College Unhappy Distraction Distracted Dissatisfied

Author:Nellie McKay

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”

Heart Persons Beautiful Sound Music Cry Poet Profound Lips Unhappy Thrive Anguish Sigh Beautiful Music Unhappy Person

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.”

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Author:Patty Judge

“Of course, there are hurtful moments of the malice and rumors - the worst are not the ones that affect you, but ones that affect other family members. But you have to distance yourself from it, otherwise you would be unhappy.”

Moments Worst Distance Unhappy Rumor Malice Hurtful

Author:Emmanuel Macron

“There is nobody better at deconstructing liberals than me. If there is, I haven't met 'em. This is not a brag. It's a statement of fact. Because I've spent my life studying them so that I can predict them, so that I can warn people, because liberalism is destructive, as we've seen our whole lives. Aspects of liberalism in America under its control are in rotten shape, they're in horrible, rotten shape, and the people that live under liberal control are miserable and unhappy and constantly enraged.”

People Study Whole Life Unhappy Horrible Miserable Liberalism Brag

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.”

Giving Joy Give Me Unhappy Reviews

Author:Alan King

“The Constitution was written to protect individual freedom and limit the ability of the government to encroach upon it. The liberals don't like that. The Democrats are very unhappy. The Constitution limits government too much. So they want to rewrite it, have a second Bill of Rights. So they want a new Bill of Rights that spells out what government can do instead of a Bill of Rights that tells government what it can't do.”

Individual Ability Protect Constitution Democrat Unhappy Bill Of Rights Individual Freedom

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I realized that the reason why my head was so cluttered and why I was so unstable and not taking care of myself, all of these things, was that I was unhappy. If I wanted to get to a happier place and find some kind of peace, I was going to have to address problems with myself, things from my life up until that point that I hadn't dealt with: insecurities, fears, and those kinds of things.”

Kind Reason Problem Care I Realized Unhappy Insecurity

Author:Benjamin Booker

“There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.”

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Author:Andrew B. Newberg

“When I talk to kids, I often tell them, "I'm going to disappoint you someday. I won't be worth my salt as a judge if I don't render at least one decision that makes you unhappy. Because if I'm following the law - and I don't write them - there has to be some decision you won't like. Please don't judge any person by one act. Take from them the good and don't concentrate on the little things that make you unhappy." That's my approach to family and friends, too.”

Writing Kids Decision Judging Unhappy Someday Little Things Family And Friends Disappoint

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Jeff Sessions wished he wasn`t the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he`s unhappy with only one of them. Only Jeff Sessions.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.”

“I have a sense of respect: respect for my suppliers, respect for the staff, respect for the customer - as long as they respect us. When we have a customer who is playing a provocative, disrespectful game, then we just prefer to just throw him out, rather than deal with it. Some people, sometimes, are unhappy themselves. And that can really create a frustrating performance to us and to the staff and all that. I don't throw customers out as much as I used to. In the old days, "You don't like it? Get out!" I'm much nicer now.”

People Long Sometimes Unhappy Frustrating Provocative Disrespectful

Author:Daniel Boulud

“I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.”

Thinking School Fit Summer Unhappy Miserable Rebel Stereotype

Author:Iris Apfel

“I've found that when I was young, all the pretty girls at school got all the dates and went to all the big parties and everything because they were pretty. They never bothered to develop anything. And as they aged, their prettiness faded and they were left as middle-aged women who were very, very unhappy and disappointed. But I can't feel sorry for them because that was their own doing.”

School Girl Party Sorry Unhappy Disappointed Bothered Pretty Girl Prettiness

Author:Iris Apfel

“I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.”

People Thinking World Country Jokes Unhappy Upset Decent

Author:Aaron McGruder

“The bottom line for most people who are normal is their need for other people. Even the greedy ones have this need - as long as they're not sociopathic. They may be very misguided and unhappy and do bad things and so forth, but in general if you look down deep, you find that these people are mainly concerned with other people and what other people think of them.”

People Thinking Long Concerned Bottom Unhappy Greedy

Author:Martha Stout

“One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.”

People Thinking Reason Film Hate Girl Mistake Scared Unhappy Making Mistakes Hate You Being Sad Being Unhappy

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I had identified discipline as a really important part of my life, in maintaining my sanity. It's kind of interesting when people don't know me and then get to know me and see just how workaholic I am and how unhappy I am when I don't have something to work on, or if I am not provided with the tools to be able to accomplish those things, like touring without my looping rig or without a piano, I'm just kind of like, 'Aahhh, what do I do with my day?' To me, that's just a large part of my sanity.”

People Kind Important Interesting Discipline Accomplish Unhappy Sanity Know Me Workaholic Get To Know Me

Author:Owen Pallett

“Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all."”

Realizing Progress Okay Unhappy Buddhist Never Quit Glamour Utopia

Author:Momus

“Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age.”

People Important Age Past Growth Glory Unhappy Consistent Productive Dissatisfaction

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There have been many happy days and many unhappy ones in my life, but the most important was the day I met my missus, who is sometimes estranged and sometimes not. She got me off smack - although that's not the main reason it's the happiest moment.”

Important Sometimes Reason Moments Unhappy Smack Happy Day

Author:Shane MacGowan

“Where I grew up, we spent a lot of time outside. I moved to Paris when I was 19, and from then on, it was exactly the opposite. On the weekend, you go to the galleries, the museums, the movies. And I thought, "I'm not going to be like all of these friends I've had who are now at this certain stage in their lives, and they are all unhappy with themselves because they never get out in the fresh air or the sun, and they get so disconnected from their bodies that they have to just layer and layer and layer like onions. I am not getting old like that."”

Moved Unhappy Weekend Getting Old

Author:Tomas Maier

“I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. Chekhov is more ambiguous.”

Thinking Sometimes Reason Prove Busy Unhappy Too Busy Ambiguous Happy Family Unhappy Family

Author:Peter Orner

“I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family and an unhappy family? We're probably both of those things at the same time.”

Agree Unhappy Happy Family Unhappy Family

Author:Peter Orner

“My own experience with that brief moment where I had videos on MTV was that nothing was ever good enough. When you hear people say, "I was unhappy the whole time," that sounds ridiculous. I think this is a theme among people who seek fame, not just musicians. There are a lot of bitter, disappointed people.”

People Thinking Enough Moments Fame Musician Ridiculous Unhappy Bitter Good Enough Disappointed

Author:Mike Doughty

“There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.”

People Giving Opportunity Successful Taken Circumstances Unhappy Nightmare Next Time

Author:Curtis Hanson

“Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick Bombay. Other Indian cities, such as Delhi and Varanasi, have also been bombed recently, but Bombay's significance as the financial capital of the country means that it's the best target for terrorists who're unhappy with India's progress.”

People Mean Country Progress Financial Terrorist Unhappy Welcome Significance

Author:Suketu Mehta

“Lincoln was able to say, you know, "It will make me very unhappy if I lose the presidency, but I'm committed to larger things." If you look at candidates and say this is someone who can be happy to go back to their family or they have larger convictions. Franklin Roosevelt jeopardized his presidency by telling Americans in 1940, "We might have to fight Hitler." He loved being president, but he loved defending freedom more.”

Fighting President Committed Conviction Unhappy Franklin

Author:Michael Beschloss

“One of the toughest situations to be in is when you are objectively good at something, but realize that it's making you unhappy and unbalanced.”

Realizing Situation Unhappy

Author:Alexandra Levit

“There's a lot of responsibility involved in sharing a very personal story with a lot of people, and it's easier for others not to know about things - and I know that. But in terms of the general climate, socially, these are things people have to deal with on a daily basis. We hear so many negative stories but rarely do we get positivity. We have memes of cute cats and puppies and things like that, but if they didn't exist, people would be a lot more unhappy. We need more things like that.”

People Term Responsibility Negative Cat Positivity Unhappy Cute Puppy

Author:Jennifer Lee

“Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war with the West. Many of them have houses and families and businesses in the West, and so I can see them being unhappy. But at the moment, the political system is so constructed that it would be very difficult for them to leave. That's not saying it couldn't change.”

Men War Moments Political House Difficult Unhappy Being Unhappy

Author:Anne Applebaum

“I remember very vividly. I was here in New York. Nancy Holt called me and - I feel unhappy thinking about it - she said that Bob Smithson had died. I said, "Oh, Nancy, what will we do without Bob?" He was a very good friend.”

Thinking Remember Very Good Unhappy Good Friend

Author:Virginia Dwan

“We constantly feel stressed, overwhelmed and guilty.It's our own fault if we're unhappy. It means we made a bad decision.”

Mean Decision Unhappy Guilty Overwhelmed Stressed Bad Decision

Author:Renata Salecl

“I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I choose to imagine that's what a witch is. The reason witches are so evil is because they're so unhappy and so hurt.”

People Reason Evil Hurt Imagine Injustice Witty Unhappy Grandmother Witch Imagine That Humiliation

Author:Lore Segal

“When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being. See, I don't think we were created with some pain and misery and whatever. I think we were created by whatever this thing is, when it extended itself, and, here we are. But I pile on so many misconceptions that I end up uncomfortable in my own skin.”

Thinking Pain Natural Skins Misery Unhappy Uncomfortable Misconception

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“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.”

People Kids Growing Up Comedy Focus College Unhappy Miserable Comedian Performing Academic Attorney Great Job

Author:Aisha Tyler

“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.”

Persons Stills Situation Comfort Unhappy Tragic Companion Shelter Good Food

Author:Dalai Lama

“Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.”

Years Children Two Kids Parent Married Caught Unhappy Bitter Mess Catastrophe

Author:Anne Lamott

“I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.”

Writing Unhappy

Author:Doris Lessing

“Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.”

Men May Soul Character Dies Greater Talent Genius Fame Unhappy Useless Compare

Book:You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success

Source: You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success

“One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.”

Trying Years Reason Emotion Unhappy

Book:Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

Source: Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”

Trying Women Atheism Unhappy Being Unhappy

Author:Brigitte Bardot

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