Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Tarzan looked across at his companion in misery. "While there is life," he said, "there is hope," but he grinned as he… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain.… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't… — Jake Danishevsky Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each… — Peter Eigen Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the… — Stefan Zweig 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
If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it;… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
“Dark and dirty things come to mind, things like how much pleasure I’d get from putting her in misery. But not the… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“An echo of his misery rang in me and confused itself with my own. That tear might have been for little Emy… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Think of hope the minute you feel miserable with your life. Take up the habit of finding joy in the smallest of… — Jaejoong Copy Share Image
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Xander let the full extent of his misery show on his face for his mother. She gave his knee a shake, sharing… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
