Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?” — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and… — Arnold Ehret Copy Share Image
Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be… — Paul Scherrer Copy Share Image
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“however crazy this world gets, however accustomed to misery someone may be, we are all the same. No one ever totally gives… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Your enemies don't care about you or your life so stop listening to their opinions of you. Their job is to make… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
You can pretend like you're fine and everything is okay, but if you don't deal with whats making you miserable it will… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the… — Lotte Lehmann Copy Share Image
The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I'm the drunken hearted man, my life seem so misery. And if I could change my way of livin', it t'would mean… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image