A Quote by Orhan Pamuk

My unhappiness protects me from life.

Orhan Pamuk

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Life Me Protects Unhappiness

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Orhan Pamuk
Turkish - Novelist
Born: June 7, 1952

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Barbara Amiel

A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.

Demetri Martin

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Glenn Greenwald

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

Celeste Holm

The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

Rajneesh

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Dominique de Villepin

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

Jennifer O'Neill

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.