Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are – they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler – Happiness, Misery
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Seneca – Misery, Mind
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George Eliot – Misery, World
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now.
Eckhart Tolle – Misery, Humankind
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw – Misery
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin – Power, Misery
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
