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
“Past memories strobed before him, flashes of joy blackened by the present. Reality teased, then beckoned, home likewise. Confusion dimmed, the answer… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Complaint" They call me and I go. It is a frozen road past midnight, a dust of snow caught in the rigid… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But… — Gerard Way 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
It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The world is big, but still theres no one to be found In the time off pain and distress. The only thing… — R_lovesyou Copy Share Image
When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“It is not that life is without its hurts and pains; it cannot be. But if a person brings his focus only… — Osho Copy Share Image
When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail. Call no man happy till he dies, there's no… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The most miserable man in the world of those meant for Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
