Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

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

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

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

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration and all the fair examples of renown out of distress and misery are grown.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Unless we practice conservation those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery degradation and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

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

In opposition to this detachment he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams man's illness man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.