The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery. — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Who knows what kind of pity for excuse you from yourself .To just be find the misery that you put yourself within. — Eddy Grant Copy Share Image
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't… — Sandra Kring Copy Share Image
“In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
When we follow our dreams, we may give the impression to others that we are miserable and unhappy. But what others think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Whenever you’ll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Everything looks fine when you are… — Osho Copy Share Image
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos Copy Share Image
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its” — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery. — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being free spirited. Rules cripple you into absolute, abysmal pit of misery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
