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It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.
I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula for misery.
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.
I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
I don't thrive on misery myself. I mean, I've obviously created during a time of misery, but I also create from a place of joy.
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.
I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
Here you’re just a person…one with a life force that can feed us all. (Misery) Baby, I’m not worth the indigestion. Trust me. (Fang)
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.