#unhappy

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

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't. ↗

— Barbara Delinsky

#marriage

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #motivational #unhappiness #unhappy

All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #humor #inspirational #motivational #unhappiness

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#each #families #family #happy #own

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #anyhow #battling #because #getting

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#day #down #enough #exploding #had

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. ↗

— Thomas Campion

#follow #shadow #sun #thy #unhappy

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#forget #happy #i #i think #never