#miser

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ↗

— Princess Diana

#better #compromise #happy #how #just

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#able man #happy #happy man #idle #man

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

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#hate #miserable #perfectly #time #you

People in misery is what most important in art. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#important #misery #most #people

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. ↗

— Seth Godin

#enjoys #game #happy #make #makes

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#how #little #little time #live #matter

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#almost #automatically #human #increase #misery

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. ↗

— Max Hastings

#bed #having #i #miserable #something