Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives –… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Loving the right person at the wrong time is better than loving the wrong person who will make you suffer throughout your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
They say that if you love someone you should set them free, I however would rather be glued to you than live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People enjoy our misery so much, but honestly on those days, the days that you know that you're the one getting it,… — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Always think thoughts that are productive and positive. For the Law of Attraction possesses your key to either endless misery and woe… — Xavier Streeter Copy Share Image
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try to make a person who's miserable all the time happy it'll never work, until they get… — Larry J Cowell Copy Share Image
I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
