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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception -- Marcus Aurelius
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness. -- Gautama Buddha
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. -- Virginia Woolf
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. -- D. H. Lawrence
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. -- Honore de Balzac
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world. -- Frederick Lenz
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. -- Mark Twain
Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both. -- Rajneesh
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? -- Leslie Caron
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness -- Eckhart Tolle
Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy. -- Nirmala Srivastava
That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular. -- Nirmala Srivastava
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. -- Gisele Bundchen
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness. -- Leo Tolstoy
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
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. -- Polly Toynbee
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. -- Dennis Prager
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. -- Polly Toynbee
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. -- Alastair Campbell
The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness. -- Rob Brydon
The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope. -- Dalai Lama
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased. -- Anton Chekhov
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill. -- Matthieu Ricard
The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer. -- Ajahn Chah
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? -- Amy Chua
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. -- James E. Faust
To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness. -- Per Petterson
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. -- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. -- Stephen R. Covey
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. -- Stephen R. Covey
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. -- Lauren Oliver
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows. -- Adrian Rogers
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. -- Don Marquis
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. -- James Allen
But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it! -- Simone Berteaut
Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness. -- Dov Davidoff
We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness. -- Sharon Gannon
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness. -- Lulu
Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness -- Novala Takemoto
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. -- Marcel Proust
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation. -- Coco Chanel
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. -- Haruki Murakami
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost. -- Leo Buscaglia
The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says. -- Elizabeth McCracken
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. -- Eric Hoffer
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. -- Shirley Hazzard
The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others. -- Paulo Coelho
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. -- Robert Breault
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness. -- Jonathan Franzen
Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? -- John Geddes
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth -- Carole Glickfeld
You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth -- Carole Glickfeld
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. -- Bertrand Russell
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. -- Euripides
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. -- Bertrand Russell
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession. -- Charles Spurgeon
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed. -- Gautama Buddha
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. -- Philip Kaufman
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. -- Baruch Spinoza
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. -- Robert M. Lindner
Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is. -- Coco Chanel
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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy~? -- Leslie Caron
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. -- Chris Prentiss
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness? -- Tim Ferriss
Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. -- Francis Bacon
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. -- Francis Quarles
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. -- James Lane Allen
We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands. -- Jean de la Bruyere
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. -- Eckhart Tolle
Some people are so evil when they enter a house; happiness escapes through the window and unhappiness and fear installed in its place -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. -- Leo Tolstoy
I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it. -- Carl Hilty
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude. -- Robertson Davies
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom. -- Lauren Oliver
A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. -- Thomas Szasz
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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. -- Douglas Coupland
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness. -- Leo Tolstoy
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. -- Primo Levi
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted. -- Gretchen Rubin
Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again. -- Linda Howard
Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal. -- Gretchen Rubin

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