#unhappy

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. ↗

— Epictetus

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I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy? ↗

— Paul Schrader

#happy #i #i do #make #me

And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#elvis #everyone #me #unhappy

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#everything #optimize #unhappy #will #you

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. ↗

— George Orwell

#back #his #look #say #truth

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave. ↗

— Charles Dibdin

#drinking #grave #keeps #like #makes

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #being #being alone #books #changed

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#enjoy #eternal #eternally #how #life

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#love #unhappy #food

In your daily life, let your destined visions be farther than your gifted sight and your ultimate joy be vibrant than your demeaning worries. Think big, dream big. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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