Joyce Meyer

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

American Author

Jameela Jamil

People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.

English Celebrity

Sonia Sotomayor

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

American Judge

Bertrand Russell

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.

British Philosopher

Woodrow Wilson

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

American President

Samuel Johnson

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

English Writer

Abraham Maslow

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

American Psychologist

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

American Musician

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Roman Statesman

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

German Philosopher

Expresses a personal emotional condition, often associated with disappointment or grief.

Emotional State

Subjective and can vary greatly between individuals; what makes one person unhappy may not affect another.

Subjective Feeling

Often implies a temporary mood that could change, not necessarily a long-term state of being.

Temporary State

Refers to situations that have caused distress or bad outcomes, hinting at a more global effect.

Negative Conditions

Can describe situations not directly tied to a person's feelings but still unfortunate or problematic.

Impersonal Scenarios

Indicates that reality did not meet someone's hopes or standards.

Unmet Expectations

Often used when someone's preferences or desires are not fulfilled.

Speaks to Preference

Signals that something is not approved of or is seen negatively by someone.

Indicates Disapproval

 But the people who were in unhappy relationships, on the days when they reported more physical pain, it was magnified by more emotional pain. And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships don't just protect our bodies, they protect our brains.

Robert Waldinger: What...

 and to an extent, this feisty, energetic persona of lecture-going and traffic cone stealing was a veneer, albeit a very well-crafted and convincing one. Underneath, I was actually deeply unhappy, insecure and fundamentally frightened -- frightened of other people, of the future, of failure

The voices in my head PIPE...

 When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me. But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood,

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 Now we're not here for that long anyway, but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, it just kind of seems tragic, actually, especially when there's something we can do about it,

All it takes is 10...

 romance at a glance and blissful Green Day's were always followed by tearful blue ones our life together was more sad than happy I could see the loss of days and I had such a bill to pay I had been so blind I wasted time in unhappy

Time Debt PIPE Linda...

 Eventually, I decided to go to graduate school for positive psychology to learn what truly makes people happy. But what I discovered there changed my life. The data showed that chasing happiness can make people unhappy.

There's more to life...

 that make them unhappy. But dissolving a marriage is almost never as simple as sending two people their separate ways. What divorcing partners owe each other, and how they manage aspects of a once shared life

When did humans start...

 Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you're functioning a little better, it's probably grief,

Depression, the secret...

 breast with his nose and back off so desperately unhappy but there's such a sad look in his eyes Maureen had a small lump in her breast but her latest mammogram was clear

The Best Dogs of BBC...

 i think maybe being so unhappy in my body for the longest time helped me really separate what are physical things and what are my spiritual components

Unhappy