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
When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality,… — Anna Maxted Copy Share Image
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'd rather the league put me out of my misery than look like a quitter and come out and say, 'I don't… — Darren Waller Copy Share Image
“To know misery is to know its opposite, happiness. One cannot exist without the other.” — Jodi Aman Copy Share Image
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness… — Seneca the Younger 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
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Life is much too short to sit around dwelling in unhappiness, and being miserable. Every day is a joyous occasion, be sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life. It is force used to pile on more misery. — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
