“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries? — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness.… — S. N. Goenka 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
“If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Once you start ignoring your enemies they will be disappointed because they will no longer have the POWER to make you angry… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
