People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. — Boethius Copy Share Image
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just… — Sinbad Copy Share Image
I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and,… — Nathaniel Chapman Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
