I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world,… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This… — Keiko Nobumoto Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of ‘remaining untouched in the worldly life’? It means that one finds pleasure upon seeing something nice, but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.” “Christ, Kincaid, what did you say to him?” murmured… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life.… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“The main fault is our own, which proves that no one else is guilty. What is the mystery behind this? If Soul… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Soul is endowed with resultant bliss! One himself is Soul, no one else can take its happiness away from him. One is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
All power is God's power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image