During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

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!

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

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

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as Democrats unhappy.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Unhappy is a nice word.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.