#unhappy

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#doing #happy #makes #think #unhappy

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #had #invent #inventing #invents

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#avoid #being #close #count #nothing

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#george #george lucas #just #lucas #making

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#i #more #unhappy #writing

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #certain #happy #life #making

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it. ↗

— Elton John

#accept #days #elton #elton john #i

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ↗

— James Joyce

#fear #i #make #those #unhappy

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults. ↗

— William Joyce

#encouraged #enjoyed #enthusiasms #go #i