If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Your best teacher , supporter, motivator and counselor resides inside your self as your soul , don't feel miserable in opposite circumstances… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
There would be a lot L E S S cheating, broken hearts, tears, unhappiness, misery, and drama if people were just 100%… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Some people need to suffer when they diet, it seems. Misery is a goal in itself, hunger a stamp of approval, hating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Causes (karmic) are created by doing raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) in situations of happiness and misery; and causes come to an end, when one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Has realized that we must endure misery in life in order to really truly appreciate the good & enjoy life's simple pleasures! :) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can see the pain in your eyes. Physically you're sitting right in front of me, but mentally you've drifted off into… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
