Top 91 Happy Or Unhappy Quotes
#3. Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
Nicholas Sparks
#4. If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative'", then I would say, "No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.
Dale Carnegie
#6. Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.
Ira Levin
#7. I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
#9. The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.
Ralph Charell
#10. Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
Gary L. Thomas
#11. Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.
Fay Weldon
#12. Rich people are just people," said Mma Ramotswe. "I have not met a rich person yet who isn't just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.
Alexander McCall Smith
#13. It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
Sarah Dessen
#14. By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?
Deepak Chopra
#15. In the end we are almost never happy or unhappy because of what happens to us; we are one or the other depending on the humor that flows inside us
Paolo Giordano
#16. Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#17. Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem
#18. Do you want me to remind you that you once swore to make my happiness aim of your life? And that you cant say in all honesty whether i am happy or unhappy, because you haven't even inquired whether i exist?
Ayn Rand
#19. There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#20. Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.
Eddie Barclay
#21. Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.
Haruki Murakami
#22. Am I happy or unhappy? It's not a very important question.
Albert Camus
#23. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Swami Satchidananda
#24. Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.
Giacomo Casanova
#25. The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.
Dalai Lama
#26. The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
Norman Vincent Peale
#27. Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.
Bertrand Russell
#28. Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings.
Richard Bach
#29. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
Agatha Christie
#30. People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent.
Henri Charriere
#32. RVM Thoughts for Today
Do you know that you can CHOOSE to be Happy or Unhappy? happiness doesn't just Happen ! It is a Choice you make.
R.v.m.
#33. ALWAYS BE HAPPY IS NOT IMPORTANT , WHAT IMPORTANT IS TO FIGHT THE STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES US HAPPY OR UNHAPPY !!
Tushar Upreti
#34. I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
Bob Dylan
#35. This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
Marcel Carne
#37. When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy
Ray Bradbury
#38. 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 it.
Dale Carnegie
#39. Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
Michel De Montaigne
#40. Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.
Rem Koolhaas
#41. The great world, so far as we know it from philosophy of nature, is neither good nor bad, and is not concerned to make us happy or unhappy. All such philosophies spring from self-importance, and are best corrected by a little astronomy.
Bertrand Russell
#42. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Groucho Marx
#43. If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy!
Kyousuke Motomi
#44. Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.
Milan Kundera
#45. He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.
Andrew Ashling
#46. 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
#47. To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
Anthony Doerr
#48. Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child ...
Dennis Prager
#49. Happiness is a treadmill of a goal for people who are not happy by nature. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy.
Augusten Burroughs
#50. There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
Blaise Pascal
#51. A lot of stuff happens daily when you're running a company like Subway. If you get too happy about some things or too unhappy about others, you get worn out. It's best if you can pace yourself a little bit more.
Fred DeLuca
#52. Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
Louisa May Alcott
#53. I've been happy alone and I've been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.
Nora Roberts
#54. The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.
Oliver Burkeman
#55. The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.
Bertrand Russell
#56. It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.
Emile Chartier
#57. We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.
Richard Rohr
#58. I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
Edna O'Brien
#59. Try to feel and give only love and compassion to every one; you will be happy. Don't judge or hate anything. You will be unhappy.
Jason Becker
#60. I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
Orhan Pamuk
#61. Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy.
Pawan Mishra
#63. Felix just sat there, not smirking exactly - or not so as you could call him on it - but clearly happy with how unhappy he'd managed to make all of us.
Sarah Monette
#64. Are you happy? It doesn't matter! Are you unhappy? It doesn't matter! What matters is whether you exist or not! Are you laughing? It doesn't matter! Are you crying? It doesn't matter! What matters is whether you exist or not!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#66. All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.
Ogwo David Emenike
#67. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
Nick Hornby
#68. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
William Steig
#69. The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life.
Gudjon Bergmann
#70. They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.
Frederick Lenz
#71. I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.
Matt Nix
#72. I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
Lawrence Durrell
#73. Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
Walt Disney
#74. I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.
Iris Apfel
#75. The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank
#76. It is up to us, whether to be happy for what we have, or to be unhappy for what we don't have.
Shon Mehta
#77. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
Stefan Zweig
#78. Always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself
John Gray
#79. Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.
Augusten Burroughs
#80. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Giacomo Casanova
#81. People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.
Mignon McLaughlin
#82. Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?
Amity Gaige
#83. People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.
Christina Ricci
#85. They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale
and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
Norman Vincent Peale
#87. TIME WAS MY worst enemy. Nothing good ever came from time. It passed too quickly - good moments and happy memories gone in a blink. Or it passed too slowly - bad experiences and unhappy circumstances dragging for an eternity.
Pepper Winters
#88. Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.
Tarryn Fisher
#89. To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Antoine Rivarol
#90. As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
Milan Kundera
#91. Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?
George Washington
