I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“Don’t play old tapes. Just cut the very root, just drop the whole idea of old patterns and old habits and start… — Osho Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index - and it's at a record high.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some ways life circumstances will surely comes around, its your choice to stay alive and be strong to see it through,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of… — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
