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Quotes having the keyword Unhappiness
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.
by Dennis Prager (Journalist, American , born in 1948) keywords: although, cause, century, changing, conform, evil, fact, forcefully, greatest, images, lives, monstrous, perfect, perfection, personal, societal, societies, society, twentieth, unhappiness , utopian Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
by Dennis Prager (Journalist, American , born in 1948) keywords: am, amount, been, deeply, even, given, grateful, how, misery, much, perplexed, sometimes, spared, suffering, unhappiness, unjust , world Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
by Marcel Proust (Author, French , born in 1871) keywords: any, happiness, hardly, make, other, possible, purpose, serves, than , unhappiness There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
by Francois Rabelais (Clergyman, French , born in 1493) keywords: amongst, benevolence, cause, charity, expecting, harm, men, naturally, receive, than, truer, unhappiness, vexation , where We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
by Joseph Roux (Clergyman, French , born in 1834) topics: Friendship keywords: call, every, father, friend, here, him, his, holds, immense, impotence, known, language, losing, lost, man, name, orphan, peace, person, silent, unhappiness, widower , wife If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
by Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, British , born in 1872) keywords: any, could, desired, few, happiness, large, more, number, others, own, paradise, than, their, today, unhappiness, were, world , years It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: appreciate, bliss, domestic, patience, prefer, spirits, takes, unhappiness , volatile The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
by Franz Schubert (Composer, Austrian , born in 1797) keywords: based, convention, fool, greatest, man, misfortune, unhappiness, upon , wise There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Statesman , Roman) keywords: admired, bear, courage, how, knows, man, much, nothing, unhappiness , world All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
by Baruch Spinoza (Philosopher , born in 1632) keywords: attached, depends, happiness, love, object, quality, solely, unhappiness, upon , which Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
by James Thurber (Comedian, American , born in 1894) keywords: any, bound, confusion, kind, lead, minutes, sixty, thinking , unhappiness Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
by Polly Toynbee (Journalist, English , born in 1946) keywords: accurately, another, causes, compared, cures, happiness, means, measured, now, objective, over, phenomenon, quantified, real, scientifically, societies, time, unhappiness, verifiable , whole The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
by Polly Toynbee (Journalist, English , born in 1946) keywords: also, anyone, even, had, highly, illness, last, mental, poverty, predictor, ranks, stronger, strongest, than, unhappiness, which , years I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
by Martha Washington (First Lady, American , born in 1731) keywords: am, cheerful, circumstance, determined, disposition, find, greater, happy, learned, may, misery, myself, our, part, situation, unhappiness , whatever Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
by Judith Wright (Poet, Australian , born in 1915) keywords: after, did, faced, first, growth, marriage, only, path, personal, start , unhappiness
