"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."
- Leo Tolstoy
"In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the..."
- John Steinbeck
"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."
- Charles Bukowski
"The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any mome..."
- J. Cornell Michel
"To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy."
- Ogwo David Emenike
"Not all things are eligible to make you unhappy"
- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Because no one can make another person happy", said George. "He was happy when he was with me, but otherwise he wasn't. That's not enough. I mean, in a relationship, you have your ups and downs, sure,..."
- Cindy L. Rodriguez
"Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."
"Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn’t find such a path yet!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan