A Quote by Elaine Dundy

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

Elaine Dundy

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Anything Over Pleasant Remembering Unpleasant Use

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Elaine Dundy
American - Novelist
August 1, 1921 - May 1, 2008

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Bertrand Russell

The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.

David Bohm

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Sharon Salzberg

Cleaning cat litter is an unpleasant daily chore for me, but the DuraScoop makes it much less unpleasant.

Mark Frauenfelder

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Nelson Mandela

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Theodore Roosevelt

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Epictetus

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Hans Selye

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Richard Bandler

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

Mel Gibson

We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

Albert Wohlstetter

There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.