Clear Quote by Rajneesh

Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy…

— Rajneesh

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

— Jeanette Winterson

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

— Laozi

There is always some kind of misery when you are happy and always some kind of happiness even when you are miserable

— Nidhi Saini

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things…

— Anonymous

What is misery? Not realizing your misery and mistaking it for happiness, I think

— Tsukihime

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

— Sharon Salzberg

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

— Deepak Chopra

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

— L. Frank Baum

“Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even…

— Graham Greene