Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other one says, 'Yeah, I know; and such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
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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.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.
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The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one. And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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.
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My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
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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.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
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