I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. . . I think. . . peace and tranquillity will return again.
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
Without bread all is misery.
The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.
A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.
religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
All misery and pain come from attachment.
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.
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better now, but I did miss him. For all the misery he caused, I knew with certainty that he loved us. Those aren't things you can weigh or measure away. . . . They're not opposites that cancel each other out. They're both true at the same time.
Be again, be again. (Pause. ) All that old misery. (Pause. ) Once wasn't enough for you.
He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.