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Letter "M" » misery
«For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.»
«As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery? we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
anger, attachment, beings, compassion, disturbing, emotions, free love, human beings, inner, Inner peace, key, misery, Obstacles, peace and love, responsibility, sense of responsibility, sources, such as, suspicion, universal, Universals
«I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.»
Author: Martha Washington
(First Lady)
| About:
Experience,
Happiness
| Keywords:
circumstances, depends, dispositions, misery
« ... And listen carefully, when you don't need the other, you can love. And that love will not bring misery.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bring, carefully, listen, misery, the Other
« I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there is no desire to be understood. It is their problem if they don't understand, it is not my problem. If they misunderstand, it is their problem and their misery. I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me. »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
affected, millions, misery, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, misunderstood, simple People, understood, waste
«Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.»
Author: Erica Jong
| Keywords:
endear, endeared, endearing, endears, especially, in fact, lucky, misery, Pretty Things
«As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
emblem, Emblems, goodness, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, misery
«Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.»
«Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.»
«He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.»
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