#unhappy

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

— Wanda Sykes

#chance #here #i #refused #today

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#believer #make #people #put #simply

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. ↗

— Herodotus

#exceedingly #fortunate #many #men #middling

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#capability #check #depressed #design #empty

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

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 deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#deal #i #lot #marriages #married

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time. ↗

— Roddy McDowall

#child #child actor #films #had #i

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #church #expectations #god #happiness