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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
Sep 10, 2025
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.
Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.
If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?
If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful
A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart.
Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.
Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness
We become moral when we are unhappy.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.
My unhappiness protects me from life.
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
Unhappiness was my god.
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.
How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.
I don't think unhappiness is fated.
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?
If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
The only unhappiness is not to love God.
I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.
Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.
Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.
I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
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.