No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
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
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda 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
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The God of the Bible takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What happens next is up to you. Will you give up on yourself and be miserable or will you FIGHT so that… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand… — John Keats Copy Share Image
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
