Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.
I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
Life's philosophy, hm. . . I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable. '
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.
For me, wearing lingerie isn't about anyone else but me. If I dressed for others I would be a miserable person.
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are
Everyone in L. A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.