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
An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh 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
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,”… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman 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
“Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Misery and death is what happens when incompetents run state utilities.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
