| Quotation 1 : | MISERY
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." |
| Martha Washington |
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| Quotation 2 : | MISERY
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Quotation 3 : | MISERY
"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." |
| Martha Washington |
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| Quotation 4 : | MISERY
"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like." |
| Saint Augustine |
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| Quotation 5 : | MISERY
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death." |
| Anne Frank |
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| Quotation 6 : | MISERY
"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery." |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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| Quotation 7 : | MISERY
"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness." |
| Leon Trotsky |
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| Quotation 8 : | MISERY
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough." |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Quotation 9 : | MISERY
"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." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 10 : | MISERY
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery." |
| Dante Alighieri |
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| Quotation 11 : | MISERY
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." |
| Charles Darwin |
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| Quotation 12 : | MISERY
"Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 13 : | MISERY
"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living" |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 14 : | MISERY
"If then, you will be damned, let me have this one thing as a consolation for your misery, that you are not damned for the lack of calling after; you are not lost for the lack of weeping after, and not lost for the lack of praying after." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 15 : | MISERY
"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." |
| Charlie Chaplin |
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| Quotation 16 : | MISERY
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Quotation 17 : | MISERY
"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles." |
| Red Skelton |
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| Quotation 18 : | MISERY
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery." |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Quotation 19 : | MISERY
"For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy." |
| Boethius |
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| Quotation 20 : | MISERY
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human." |
| Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Quotation 21 : | MISERY
"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody." |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| Quotation 22 : | MISERY
"Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea." |
| Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
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| Quotation 23 : | MISERY
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not tr" |
| Francois Fenelon |
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| Quotation 24 : | MISERY
"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand." |
| John Ruskin |
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| Quotation 25 : | MISERY
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." |
| Martha Washington |
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| Quotation 26 : | MISERY
"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole." |
| Thornton Wilder |
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| Quotation 27 : | MISERY
"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 28 : | MISERY
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." |
| W. Somerset Maugham |
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| Quotation 29 : | MISERY
"What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should on" |
| Vincent van Gogh |
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| Quotation 30 : | MISERY
"Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfo" |
| Dean Koontz |
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| Quotation 31 : | MISERY
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief" |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Quotation 32 : | MISERY
"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong." |
| Tabitha Suzuma |
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| Quotation 33 : | MISERY
"There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe thi" |
| Alice Munro |
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| Quotation 34 : | MISERY
"Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery" |
| Anne Frank |
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| Quotation 35 : | MISFORTUNE
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 36 : | MISFORTUNE
"I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world." |
| Charles Dickens |
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| Quotation 37 : | MISFORTUNE
"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life." |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 38 : | MISFORTUNE
"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God." |
| Victor Hugo |
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| Quotation 39 : | MISFORTUNE
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Quotation 40 : | MISFORTUNE
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us" |
| Voltaire |
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| Quotation 41 : | MISFORTUNE
"That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." |
| Haruki Murakami |
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| Quotation 42 : | MISFORTUNE
"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."" |
| Marcus Aurelius |
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| Quotation 43 : | MISFORTUNE
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune" |
| William Faulkner |
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| Quotation 44 : | MISFORTUNE
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." |
| Aristotle |
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| Quotation 45 : | MISFORTUNE
"Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others." |
| Elizabeth Gaskell |
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| Quotation 46 : | MISFORTUNE
"He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength." |
| Cormac McCarthy |
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| Quotation 47 : | MISFORTUNE
"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart." |
| Socrates |
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| Quotation 48 : | MISFORTUNE
"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them." |
| Washington Irving |
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| Quotation 49 : | MISFORTUNE
"We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at" |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 50 : | MISFORTUNE
"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention." |
| Conan O'Brien |
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| Quotation 51 : | MISFORTUNE
"A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you a" |
| Rhonda Byrne |
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| Quotation 52 : | MISFORTUNE
"We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it." |
| Marjane Satrapi |
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