#miser

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#enjoy #health #hoard #like #misers

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#anything #change #just #just one #miserable

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. ↗

— John Milton

#bear #blind #blindness #miserable

Misery is the company of lawsuits. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#company #lawsuits #misery

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. ↗

— Evo Morales

#economic #economic policies #globalization #lord #misery

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! ↗

— Jean Racine

#gods #hopes #misery #thank

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#climb #except #lawful #mankind #miseries

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#compensates #misery #pleasure #rare #seen

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#attention #bit #bored #came #dance

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 true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral