Pastoral Resources

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.