Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries;… — H. Chandler Elliott 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
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
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
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
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
“Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at… — Susan Heather Copy Share Image
“Kashaya (attachment-abhorrence, anger-pride-deceit-greed) means that the relative self (pratisthit atma) within continuously experiences misery, experiences continuous restlessness.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The estate had always been this way. A parade of people, joined together by tedium and curiosity, passing other people’s misery around… — Joanna Cannon Copy Share Image
Miserable people focus on the things they can't change, and Happy people focus on the things they can change. What are you… — Sonya Parker 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
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." -… — Carla Acheson Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“He drank in her misery like fine wine, savoring every drop, letting it soothe his mind, his tension flowing out the fingertips… — Verity Ant Copy Share Image
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“...the miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Until you realize you are the creator of your own misery you will never be truly happy.For it is how you react… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
