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
“Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“Dear, dear Cecily, or as I affectionately refer to her in the privacy of my mind, She Who Inflicts Misery Simply by… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get… — Alan Gibbons Copy Share Image
“...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure… — Terry Cole-Whittaker Copy Share Image
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
“The main fault is our own, which proves that no one else is guilty. What is the mystery behind this? If Soul… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“He assumed that there must be a connection between all that had happened yesterday and all that surrounded him now. At last,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You gotta be happy when you wake up in the morning and look at what's next to ya. You wanna just hop… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
“With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is… — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing,… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Authoritarianism has no place in religion. If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence), krodh-maan-maya-lobh (anger-pride-deceit-greed), they all cause misery. That is called kashaya (inner enemies that gives pain to soul).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
