It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
But I do think that women who spend all their lives on a diet probably have a miserable sex life: if your… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I couldn't find any meaning for my life when I was out there, I'm sure as hell not going to find it… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have tons of money, and still you are miserable, you are not satisfied. The bow of gratitude and arrow of… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
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Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside,… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was… — John Fante Copy Share Image
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
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