Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school

Unhappy people are dangerous.

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

I'm lonely! I'm bored!

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.