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"If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens."
"Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
"Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy."
"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world."
"The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God."
"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."
"They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."
"London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy."
"A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy."
"Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy."
"Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do."
"God has commanded Time to console the afflicted."
"The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest."
"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them."
"The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have."
"Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness"
"When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now."
"while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy."
"Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy."
