Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care,… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I… — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“It is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) to complain and cry about one’s own misery and it is raudradhyan (wrathful… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think everybody knows that Africa is in a very deep crisis. There is economic misery and social deprivation and that Africa… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use.… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image