There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?”… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“And someone, somewhere, was having an even worse time of it than me. I tried to keep that in mind. No matter… — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness.… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Translating cold numbers into a graphic picture of the hard economic realities in the lives of ordinary people is a challenge. In… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
Obama has been trying or was trying to transform the country away from the way it was founded, and it is causing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I looked around the barroom. Someone else might have seen nothing more than a random crowd of drinkers, but I saw my… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
“Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“It has taken me four years to figure this out. If we live long enough, we all will experience this. Don’t ever… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image