Zitat des Tages über Unglück / Unhappiness:
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
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.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
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.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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.
I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.