Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“perhaps it is only that sometimes misery seems to ease when spread about, or that spreading it seems to provide some purpose… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
If misery were a seed, some would attempt to plant it everywhere. FYI: From the seed of misery, grows a weed to… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
If someone makes you miserable more than happy, it doesn't matter how much you love them, you need to meed to let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery — Andrew Hamilton Copy Share Image
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally… — Joan Dunayer Copy Share Image
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to… — Christa Parravani Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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