#misery

Misery is a match that never goes out. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#choose #come #decision #happiness #life

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. ↗

— David D. Burns

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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#because #believe #bought #called #friends

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dividing #doubling #grief #happiness #improves