Employment Quote by Robert A. Burton

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

— Galen

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Misery is a communicable disease.

— Martha Graham

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— L. Frank Baum

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

— John Bradshaw

“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

Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Laozi

“What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness—this sense of…

— Pema Chödrön

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others,…

— John Ruskin

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

— Edward Abbey