Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant. . . The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.
I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.
I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.
Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.