The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends among the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Thinking is a form of action, a means of activating our most cherished dreams. We can dwell in a negative world of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Each actor is different. When I did 'Misery,' Kathy Bates, who's a stage trained actress, loves lots of rehearsal. Jimmy Caan, who… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
I will not make the same mistakes that you did I will not let myself Cause my heart so much misery I… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I started out believing that life was made just so the world would have some way to think about itself, but that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
