Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
“First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's better to being alone than having a relationship full of misunderstanding and having a miserable life. — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
“Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence), krodh-maan-maya-lobh (anger-pride-deceit-greed), they all cause misery. That is called kashaya (inner enemies that gives pain to soul).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness. — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“If this ego did not exist, then the world would not be this crazy. It is due to the ego that there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you're dead. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
