They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can… — Nina Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When one becomes engrossed with the mind, there will be happiness and there will be misery too. And when there is no… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives –… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“The pain that you do not fear, will not come before you at all. Neither do the gansters come, and nor does… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
In screaming your name cause it the only word that makes sense, I need help cause my alter ego got me backed… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image