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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world. -- Daniel Gilbert
I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older. -- Diana Quick
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty. -- Robert Gottlieb
Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try to give love to someone, especially then. -- Harold Klemp
The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. -- Brigitte Bardot
I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move. -- Magnus Scheving
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
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
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. -- Eliza Haywood
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. -- Woodrow Wilson
I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life. -- George Clooney
People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people. -- Chuck Feeney
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. -- W. H. Auden
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I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy. -- Jasper Carrott
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. -- Paul Theroux
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. -- Gloria Steinem
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. -- Martha Washington
There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way. -- Josie Loren
Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace. -- Gina McCarthy
In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy. -- Zoey Deutch
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. -- Gloria Steinem
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes". -- Lauren Oliver
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy. -- Bob Dylan
Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy. -- Eddie Barclay
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness. -- John McEnroe
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings. -- David O. Russell
An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. -- Joni Mitchell
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it. -- Alan Bennett
To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy. -- Ogwo David Emenike
You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey. -- Abraham Hicks
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. -- Joseph Roux
Unhappy people needs your smile more than Happy people do -- Vianka Van Bokkem
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. -- Agatha Christie
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do! -- Norman Vincent Peale
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it? -- Paul McCrane
Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person. -- Robert Kiyosaki
We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one. -- William Matthews
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Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world. -- T. Harv Eker
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. -- Marcel Carne
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy. -- Audrey Tautou
A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else. -- Richard Flanagan
Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. -- Fannie Hurst
I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy? -- Paul Schrader
You're as happy as you allow yourself to be - so why be unhappy? -- Marilyn Quayle
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be. -- Haruki Murakami
She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. -- Paulo Coelho
If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well. -- Nora Roberts
I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films. -- Stanley Kubrick
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -- Leo Tolstoy
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore. -- Sarah Dessen
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again. -- Manuel Puig
The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy. -- Walt Disney
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. -- Lucian
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. -- Marcel Proust
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. -- Roger Ebert
You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race. -- Joel Osteen
When you are unhappy about something, you can always find thousands of other things to be happy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. -- Giacomo Casanova
it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy. -- Margaret Deland
I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time. -- Steve Martin
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. -- Michel de Montaigne
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. -- Patanjali
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. -- Louisa May Alcott
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. -- Colley Cibber
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. -- Thomas Fuller
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. -- Fay Weldon
Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy. -- Robert Anthony
There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too. -- Meg Wolitzer
I could see no reason for being sad. ItÂ´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. -- Simone de Beauvoir
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be? -- Ernie J Zelinski
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. -- Joss Whedon
For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy -- Boethius
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. -- Alfred Renyi
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. -- Antoine Rivarol
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy. -- Epictetus
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. -- Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move. -- Magnus Scheving
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. -- Milan Kundera
Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be. -- Tony Robbins
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. -- Anton Chekhov
I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times. -- Taylor Swift
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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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. -- Byron Katie
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. -- Lin Yutang
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
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. -- Rem Koolhaas
The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that? -- Mother Teresa
As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy. -- Etgar Keret
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour. -- Anthony Doerr
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. -- Groucho Marx

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