Adversity Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of…

— Ellen Key

Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences…

— Stephen Covey

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote…

— Marianne Williamson

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

— Cormac McCarthy

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

— Albert Camus

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

“Every human society must of necessity be composed of several strata. You may disturb it temporarily into an amorphous whole by a revolution such…

— Rafael Sabatini

Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence…

— Robert Owen

It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is,…

— Dale Jamieson

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no means a sign of great and terrible misery. The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche