Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery,… — Lenny Clarke Copy Share Image
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we follow our dreams, we may give the impression to others that we are miserable and unhappy. But what others think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery. In the Glade, Chuck had… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't… — Sandra Kring Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
“Perhaps her giant bright-eyed sister had finally come to put her out of her misery just when things had gotten interesting.” — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“If one understands that worldly life is the result of scientific circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit); then that will reduce many of one’s miseries.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Until you realize you are the creator of your own misery you will never be truly happy.For it is how you react… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“...the miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips… — Verity Ant Copy Share Image
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to… — P.N. Elrod Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
