#unhappy

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

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I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

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Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#happy people #i #know #look #people

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal. ↗

— Paul Simon

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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

#around #brought #happiness #instead #laugh

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#beautiful women #most #most beautiful #still #unhappy

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

#capable #creature #live #man #more

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#course #delights #hatred #his #kills

At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#problem #unhappy #love