Carlos Drummond de Andrade, transl. by Elizabeth Bishop, from "Travelling in the Family,"
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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind."
- Eckhart Tolle
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I barely stopped myself from dying. My heart was broken into pieces but I was afraid someone would notice so i talked and laughed and pretended like nothing happened. Do you know how hard that is?
It felt like my heart melted and disappeared. I couldn't breathe. I consciously had to tell myself to breathe and even then I was barely breathing.
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These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.
Charles Dickens, from David Copperfield, 1850
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On n'est guère malheureux que par réflexion.
- Joseph Joubert, Pensées
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Falling in love with people you can never have is the worst way to hurt yourself.
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A person can make himself happy or unhappy regardless of what is actually happening externally, simply by changing the content of his consciousness.
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Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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