Cannot Be Happy Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. — Emmet Fox
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,… — John Dickinson
One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when… — Rajneesh
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life… — Seneca the Younger
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so… — Mahatma Gandhi
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She… — Billie Burke
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. — Walter Savage Landor
You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks. — Gangaji
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot… — Jupiter Hammon
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They… — Bill Drayton
Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy. — Maxwell Maltz
He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways,… — Jack Kornfield
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is… — Anthony de Mello
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk… — Katherine Dunn
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is… — Milan Kundera

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