The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
You were my everything and my pulse, but now I'm nothing and ive got a barely beating heart. my love for you… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try to make a person who's miserable all the time happy it'll never work, until they get… — Larry J Cowell Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters… — Swami Veda Bharati Copy Share Image
“Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
