Misfortunes Quote by Marquis de Sade

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

— William Gibson

“While thinking is a practical necessity, the failure to recognize thoughts as thoughts, moment after moment, is what gives each of us the feeling…

— Sam Harris

Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'

— Louise Hay

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life,…

— Joel Osteen

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships,…

— Anonymous

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could…

— Sarah Fielding

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

— Rory Cochrane

If your mind is anything like mine, it can stumble through a half-dozen different thoughts in a heartbeat.

— Anthony Doerr

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.

— Pablo Picasso