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“As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.”

“Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.”

Men Want Giving Doe Self Term Unhappy Self Respect

Author:Edmond de Goncourt

“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

Knows Men Unhappy Unhappiness Deprived

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.”

Dream Film Spirit Fields Essence Caught Unhappy Visuals Adaptation Necessary Change Field Of Dreams Film Adaptations

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.”

Thinking Might Happens Mother Father Drink Unhappy Drank Neurotic

Author:John Hurt

“But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.”

Persons Rich Slave Possession Unhappy Domination No Money Rich Person

Author:George MacDonald

“The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.”

World Children War Difficult Family Consequence Unhappy

Book:Summerhill: a radical appoach to education

Source: Summerhill: a radical appoach to education

“If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.”

People Ifs Happiness Attitude Unhappy Make You Happy

Author:Robert Muller

“So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.”

People World Want Wells Seems Found Work Results Amount Periods Dues Unhappy Unhappiness Nerves True Happiness Refreshing Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Lin Yutang

“Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.”

Littles Politics Talking Politician Red Machines Unhappy Bags Tape Eloquence Parliamentary Red Tape

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“No matter who causes you grief, take your complaints to the meditation room, where your real friend is. In addition to your husband or wife, you should have a friend - and that friend should be God. Even if your husband or wife makes you unhappy, tell that to God, and not to anyone else. If your neighbor picks a fight with you, go to the meditation room and complain, 'Why did you let him treat me like that? Weren't you with me?' Open your heart and tell God everything. Then it becomes a satsang.”

“Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be.”

People Film Hollywood Unhappy

Author:Jonathan Ross

“Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.”

Two Body Night Space Marriage Impossible Cold Bed Unhappy Beloved Loved Ones Torment Space Between

Book:Love

Source: Love

“I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.”

Children My Own Unhappy

Author:Meg Cabot

“Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.”

People Ifs Facts Opportunity Accepting Refuse Complaining Unhappy Complaints Articulating

Author:Julian Baggini

“Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.”

World Moving Emotion Blood Like You Pressure Guides Happy Unhappy Being Happy Back And Forth Supposing Blood Pressure Fluctuation

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.”

People Doe States Influence Unhappy Unemployment Instability Working Life

Author:Polly Toynbee

“I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.”

Sports Radio Unhappy

Author:Bernardine Dohrn

“You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.”

Said Childhood Unhappy Very Happy Unhappy Childhood

Author:Emma Donoghue

“If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Shows Behinds Groups Productions Ugly Boring Unhappy Miserable Factories Cynical Cookies Cutters Miserable People Cookie Cutters

Author:Michelle Forbes

“I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.”

Way Looks Persons Long Said Father Company Source Sick Workers Satisfaction Unhappy Going To Work Happy Person Unhappy Person

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.”

People Ifs Kind I Can Missing Unhappy Theatrical

Author:Richard Foreman

“Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.”

Children Language Silence Unhappy Riot

Author:Jay Griffiths

“People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.”

People Unhappy Diets

Author:Mireille Guiliano

“I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.”

School Used Ill Unhappy Performing Embarrassed Rehearsal Get Real

Author:Lily Allen

“It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.”

Reality Young Mother Brother Baby Unhappy Being A Mother Young Mother Pappy

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.”

Unhappy Being Unhappy

Author:Jasper Carrott

“In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.”

People Knows Needs Running Order Unhappy Bunch Recipes Recipe For Success Happy People Great Business Unhappy People

Author:Mick Fleetwood

“Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.”

Able Unhappy

Author:Ian Hart

“Unhappy is a nice word.”

Nice Unhappy Nice Words

Author:Jose Mourinho

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