"I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes."
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"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."
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"Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away."
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"If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind."
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"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."
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"Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy."
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"What are you going to focus on, that's what affects everybody's life. If you focus on what you can't control, you're a little crazy inside, angry and depressed. If you focus most of the time on what you don't have instead of what you do have, you're going to be extremely unhappy."
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"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."
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"The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music."
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"Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down."
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"What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem."
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"It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life."
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"Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal."
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"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both."
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"And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible."
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"People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy."
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"We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save."
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"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."
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"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
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"If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it."
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