"Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy."
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"I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy."
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"Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape."
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"Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy."
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"Unhappy, but not unhappy enough."
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"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
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"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."
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"When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins."
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"People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are."
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"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
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"Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly"
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"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."
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"The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous."
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"Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself."
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"Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho."
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"If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness."
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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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"If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set."
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"If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good."
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"When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive."
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