One of the toughest situations to be in is when you are objectively good at something, but realize that it's making you unhappy and unbalanced.
There have been many happy days and many unhappy ones in my life, but the most important was the day I met my missus, who is sometimes estranged and sometimes not. She got me off smack - although that's not the main reason it's the happiest moment.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.
So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.
There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least,. . . I don't know how you do it.
Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.