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On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

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.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.

Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.