Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
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.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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.
I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
