When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful and fearful you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident and faithful God is in control.
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.
What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers ...
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.
But the things about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]
Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.
Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.
...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
... but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.
You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.
If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy.
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
