A Quote by Richard Flanagan

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

Richard Flanagan

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Richard Flanagan
Australian - Writer
Born: 1961

The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

Bertrand Russell

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

George Bernard Shaw

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

Amity Gaige

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be. Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

Oprah Winfrey

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

Will Durant

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

Giacomo Casanova

Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied, emotions unconnected with them become important in deciding whether a man is to be happy or unhappy.

Bertrand Russell

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

Jean-Paul Sartre

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.

Louis MacNeice

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!