If someone makes you miserable more than they make you happy, it doesn't matter how much you love him, you need to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!" Snufkin: "Fuss and misery." - from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip” — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each actor is different. When I did 'Misery,' Kathy Bates, who's a stage trained actress, loves lots of rehearsal. Jimmy Caan, who… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
“Thinking is a form of action, a means of activating our most cherished dreams. We can dwell in a negative world of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?” — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all… — John Piper Copy Share Image
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be… — Paul Scherrer Copy Share Image
Everytime I look at you, it hurts. Its just a small daily reminder that no matter how much I love you, I… — Broken Soul Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to… — Julie Chen Copy Share Image
Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
While others may break your heart, they cannot make you live in misery. You control your emotions and, while the hurt can… — Frederick Babb Copy Share Image
“First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice — Maryam Jameelah Copy Share Image
