Cause Of Unhappiness Quotes

#1. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony De Mello

#2. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais

#5. The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.

Carl Jung

#6. My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#7. Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager

#8. Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#10. Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.

Frederick Lenz

#12. The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

Harold Klemp

#13. The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships.

Brian Tracy

#14. We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Willie Nelson

#15. If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.

Aesop

#17. Craving and desire are the cause of all unhappiness. Everything sooner or later must change, so do not become attached to anything. Instead devote ...

Gautama Buddha

#18. I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

Derek Bok

#19. He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family
the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg

#20. A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

Maralee McKee

#21. If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault ... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

Epictetus

#22. We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Sharon Gannon

#23. Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

Hans Selye

#24. There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind ... there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Bertrand Russell

#25. I believe," he said gently, "we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together.

Mary Balogh

#26. To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Eric Hoffer

#27. I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

Mary Shelley

#28. [Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Eckhart Tolle

#29. The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Zig Ziglar

#30. The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#31. Our self-centered acts in turn cause us unhappiness and a tendency to repeat our nonvirtuous behavior, thereby producing more misery.

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.

Hsing Yun

#33. As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

Cofer Black

#34. I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection.

Allen Ginsberg

#35. It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

Anton Chekhov

#36. So old and persistent did Mother's unhappiness seem that I had never stopped to ask its true cause. Nothing is more acceptable than that which we are born into.

Hisham Matar