Miserable Quotes - Page 38

• The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

  Theodore Parker

  Brother, Soul, Naked

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.55

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• O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

  Joseph Alleine

  Angel, Men, Devil

  Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.38, Advaita Ashrama

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• Off the floor I'm really laid back, like nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy traveling and having fun in the locker room with the guys. Life is too short to be miserable.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Emotional

  "Dad is biggest critic, says NBA star Dirk Nowitzki". Interview with Terry Baddoo, edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Fall

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1988, Manonmani Publishers

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• Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

  Beth Moore

  Insecurity, Needs, Lines

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Mean, Happy Woman

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• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Gratitude, Men, Unhappy

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• A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Gratitude, Men, Feelings

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Gratitude, Sadness, Frustration

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• Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Motivation, Journey

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• The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Beautiful, Horse, Animal

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• It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  Ron Reagan

  Animal, Opportunity, Pigs

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• Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

  Shusaku Endo

  Beautiful, Christ, Easy

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• 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.

  Andy Biersack

  People, Focus, Enjoy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.

  Richard Turner

  Loss, People, Mail

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• If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Giving, Guarantees

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• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Joy, Religion

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Effort, Trying, Feels

  "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fun, Motivation, Inspiration

  "A roadmap to end aging". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2005.

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• For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Opportunity

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• He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

  Julius Streicher

  Coward, Doe, Speak

  "Julius Streicher" by Randall L. Bytwerk, (p. 211), 1983.

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• Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

  Ba Jin

  Moving, Writing, Eye

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.

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