"Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy."

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Evan Esar

#Perspective Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #What You Deserve Quotes

“I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.”
“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'”
“I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.52, Anchor
“The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.”
“Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.”
“Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.”
“Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.121, Open Road Media
“Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.”

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