There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Merit Karma (punya) has made one wander in the worldly life. Merit Karma brings together sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), from which… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To believe happiness-misery in circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self). One becomes unhappy when he loses what he likes… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“The best kind of love is the one that results in the profoundest level of melancholy. Longing for someone whom you have… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
“All around me, I see misery. A blind man with sunglasses and cane, like some caricature of a blind man, hobbling down… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion… As well might we expect a patient to recover without food… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“West couldn't simply leave the man like this, he didn't have it in him. "Goodman Heath," he said as he approached, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be… — osho Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Hours pass as I dream to remember the pressure of finally moving to a state of mind where nothing matters. All around… — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely… — Obert C. Tanner Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“How do I stop this misery?” I groaned, scanning the shelves for a cure. “Don’t go out there,” he said flatly. I… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
