Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside,… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The first round I had Jordy and Jihad in my heat, and I was out there looking in, and, even though France… — Andy Irons Copy Share Image
“She shook her head. “No, Jonas.” “ ‘No, Jonas’ is all you ever say,” he responded with a hint of savagery. He… — Anna Campbell Copy Share Image
“The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
People say that Im miserable all the time. Its not that Im miserable, its just that somebodys yelling at meI literally, sometimes,… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
It's never like we're up there being miserable at work, that's not something that happens for us. We love our work. So,… — Jennifer Abbott Copy Share Image
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“unless you consider it just for the worst sort of people to have the best living conditions, or unless you're prepared to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
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I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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