“The truth is that: We are unhappy married and unmarried we're unhappy. In marriage you must first endure, pity and then embrace.”
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Source: Doctor Sally
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“The neurotic … is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.”
Source: Truth and Reality (1936), p. 43
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Context: My friends, we've come to Philadelphia – the birthplace of our nation – because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today. We all know the story. But we usually focus on how it turned out - and not enough on how close that story came to never being written at all. When representatives from 13 unruly colonies met just down the road from here, some wanted to stick with the King. Some wanted to stick it to the king, and go their own way. The revolution hung in the balance. Then somehow they began listening to each other … compromising … finding common purpose. And by the time they left Philadelphia, they had begun to see themselves as one nation. That's what made it possible to stand up to a King. That took courage. They had courage. Our Founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together. America is once again at a moment of reckoning. Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart. Bonds of trust and respect are fraying. And just as with our founders, there are no guarantees. It truly is up to us. We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together.
[Barr, Michael D., Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1999, 29 2, 147, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5058/d1bc358fe18944e8aaa399e422f74d0fed75.pdf]
1980s
“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
"Such, Such Were The Joys" http://orwell.ru/library/essays/joys/english/e_joys (May 1947); published in Partisan Review (September/October 1952)