#unhappy

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#be happy #been #deep #first #happy

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#anymore #anyone #farther #know #out

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #better #career #comes #control

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#desire #entertainment #everything #food #health

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process. ↗

— Will Oldham

#getting #how #i #i can #jaded

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#go #i #lot #makes #mostly

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#everything #happy #nothing #unhappy

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#believe #deaths #described #differently #each

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#hate #i #making #pleased #sick