Hard Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun Download Open image “It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.” — Carolyn Heilbrun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hard Life Miserable Safe World
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's the point in ever trying to be happy when the very pursuit of happiness is what makes you miserable.* — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
Have a reason to be happy, there are people really suffering that have a real reason to not be. — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“. . . the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular and, despite… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Making the right decision is hard,telling someone your decision is even harder. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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I think you can get, as a player, stuck in the mindset of trying too hard to prove yourself. — Trinity Rodman Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
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