#unhappy

Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've taken a break from judging others) you'll think "Oh! Where did MY happiness go?" because you were too busy thinking that gay people shouldn't be happy... or, you know, something like that. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#how-to-be-unhappy #inspirational-quotes #unhappiness #wisdom-quotes #business

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#associate #being #career #gun #i

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#distress #i #just #light #observed

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#charming #dominating #generous #i #me

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. ↗

— John Hurt

#anyone #drank #drinks #father #fear

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#misfortune #parent #rashness #unhappy

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#land #need #unhappy

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #demand #food #hunger #natural

I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career. ↗