785 Quotes About Misery

Look ... to go through life and call it yours -- your life -- you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

Love from afar. Ever experienced that misery?”“I always keep love at a distance.

What is the definition of ‘remaining untouched in the worldly life’? It means that one finds pleasure upon seeing something nice, but he is not to stuck there; he should move on. Then a cactus will appeal to him and a rose will appeal to him. But the world gets stuck there. Getting stuck itself is the pain!

Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It masked it temporarily, but only made it fester under the surface till it came spilling out again.

Always look from an angle from which you can find more happiness in it and more joy. Ordinarily our mind always finds faults – hence it makes us miserable. Misery is an attitude.But always find the thing that will make you more happy; and it is available everywhere! If a man has decided to be happy, then in no situation can he be made unhappy. And if a man has a wrong attitude then in no situation will he ever be happy. Happiness is an attitude, so is unhappiness.

Authoritarianism has no place in religion. If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go out in the world to end misery.

When misery overwhelms us, it often overflows onto close relationships.

To know misery is to know its opposite, happiness. One cannot exist without the other.

When by the power of evil karma, misery is being tested, may the tutelary deities dissipate the misery.