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I've had an unhappy life, thank God. -- Russell Baker
An unhappy life is a life not lived. -- Dennis Prager
There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life. -- Byron Katie
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. -- Michael Pollan
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy. -- Charlie Chaplin
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived. -- Juvenal
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. -- Fulton J. Sheen
A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve. -- Michael Josephson
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. -- Solomon Northup
We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life. -- Richard Rohr
If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products. -- Cesar Chavez
I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says. -- Stephen King
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. -- Nick Hornby
How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way? -- Stewart Brand
Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing? -- Brian Tracy
Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. -- Edward Abbey
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. -- Giacomo Casanova
I would rather live a joyful simple life, doing what I love, than to be unhappy and rich. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be? -- Ernie J Zelinski
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. -- Carroll Shelby
I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it? -- Lauryn Hill
When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships) -- Tony Robbins
If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal. -- Michael Dell
Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy. -- Rodolfo Costa
Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life. -- John C. Maxwell
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. -- Albert Camus
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around. -- Rajneesh
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. -- Victor Hugo
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. -- Abraham Maslow
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. -- William Godwin
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life. -- Nat Friedman
My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy. -- Dan Howell
Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ... -- Lucy Freeman
How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. -- Francis Frangipane
I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either. -- Bo Derek
People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. -- David Lloyd-Jones
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. -- Clara Schumann
If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young. -- Lan Samantha Chang
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. -- Lillian Russell
People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy. -- Pawan Mishra
I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life. -- Kerry Condon
Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy. -- Behdad Sami
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. -- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing. -- Darrell Calkins
Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance. -- Roger Ebert
People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy. -- Christina Ricci
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. -- Red Skelton
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. -- Rebecca West
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her. -- Amy Tan
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty. -- Aristotle
I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation. -- Dalai Lama
It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy." -- Tom Hanks
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment. -- Pico Iyer
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived -- Juvenal

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