I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words,… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
O friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes… — Pema Chodron 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
“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Compounding her misery was the fact it was the worst day of the year for a singleton : Valentine's Day. Whatever. She… — Kate Meader Copy Share Image
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and… — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Them white people made hate. They made hate just like they had a formula for it and followed that formula down to… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
“People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a… — Pascal Garnier Copy Share Image
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I don't search it out - I really want to be clear, I don't search out the misery! I'm not sitting at… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
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