"But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest."
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"I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't."
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"Anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally, you'll be wrong if you adopt "Munger's Rule." However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead - and you will miss a lot of unhappy experiences."
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"The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here."
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"Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy."
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"There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist."
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"We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us."
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"There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life."
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"When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy."
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"When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it."
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"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."
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"If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?"
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"If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy."
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"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time."
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"Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy."
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"Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race."
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"The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them."
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"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls."
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"I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over."
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"If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have."
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