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Letter "U" » unhappiness
«There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.»
Author: Anthony de Mello
| About:
Happiness,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
commonly, false belief, occurs, unhappiness, widespread
«The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.»
Author: B. C. Forbes
(Editor, Founder)
| Keywords:
corrode, corroded, corrodes, corroding, derivable, ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, helpful, kindly, put off, reaps, satisfies, selfishness, unhappiness, unselfishness
«There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.»
Author: Dorothea Brande
(Editor, Writer)
| Keywords:
allowed, All of Us, destruction, Seeds, self-destruction, unhappiness
«Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'yes', all's well. That is enough.»
«The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.»
«The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.»
«Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.»
«There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage»
«My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter is; and were it, I'd not do so. This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life; it alleviates all my sufferings in prison, it composes all my pleasures in the world outside, it is dearer to me than life itself. Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
alleviated, alleviates, alter, composes, consolation, dearer, find fault, for dear life, hold dear, reflections, sole, stemmed, stems, sufferings, The Source, The Way I Am, unhappiness
«There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
daughter, dreamt, element, sleeps, unhappiness, waked
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