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Unhappy Quotes by Frederick Lenz

38 Unhappy quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz suggests that a five‑minute smile practice can shift unhappiness. He notes that unhappiness often stems from not loving properly, and the Buddhist view sees reducing the self as a way to feel more life. He also warns that ignoring dharma can lead to disaster.

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Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

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When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly..

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They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

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The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.

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Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

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Not to follow the dharma leads to disaster. Life will be unhappy.

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You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk.…

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Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be…

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To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low…

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I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish.…

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They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they…

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Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break…

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Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so…

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You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy,…

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The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing…

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Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are…

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The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you…

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This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice…

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Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the…

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Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't…

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You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate…

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Everyone is psychic. People just don't know that. They think so much. They worry so much. They're so caught up in unhappy…

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What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on…

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Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck.…

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What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out…

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Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters.…

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The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When…

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Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The…

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If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real…

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When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with…

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Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of…

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Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're…

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Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.

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We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be…

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Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in…

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I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as…

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The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and…

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People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,…

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You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…