“If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness… — Siobhan Vivian Copy Share Image
I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed… — Kat Dunn Copy Share Image
Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“She is a compassionate Amazon forming a muse from misery, full of graphic words, she doesn't hide, she speaks, she writes, she… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery?… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
A starving poor child once asked his mother, 'What's Christmas, mom?' The mother replied: 'That's a good question, but I really don't… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon by painful sensations,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore… — John Knox Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It is just as if you were expecting one million dollars and suddenly you come across a ten dollar note. You fall… — Osho Copy Share Image
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“Understand this first and foremost that you are the center of your existence; nobody else is responsible. No matter how burdensome it… — Osho Copy Share Image
![“If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again.” quote by Siobhan Vivian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c0/siobhan-vivian-17356_courage_if-there-s-one-thing-i-ve-discovered-it_785444.jpg)
