"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once."
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"So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first."
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"If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development."
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"Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy."
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"And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate."
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"I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them."
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"When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end."
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"The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy."
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"In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom."
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"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself."
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"I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture."
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"I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?"
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"The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one."
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"Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle."
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"I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness."
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"Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness."
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"In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life."
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"Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over."
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"Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours."
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"The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master."
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