"This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness."
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"A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny."
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"If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?"
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"Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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"Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial."
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"The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others."
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"There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is."
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"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure."
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"To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is."
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"If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?"
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"Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence."
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"The only unhappiness is a life of boredom."
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"If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition."
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"My unhappiness protects me from life."
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"Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly."
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"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."
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"I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution."
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"Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation."
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"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."
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