Avoid Misery Quotes

#1. Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Sam Harris

#2. All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.

Debasish Mridha

#3. He had stylized himself
life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

Graham Greene

#4. Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ?
Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on.

Toba Beta

#5. Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Beatrice Webb

#6. I write emotional algebra.

Anais Nin

#7. It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

Olivia Hussey

#8. Don't sell your soul for a lifetime of slavery to avoid a brief time of misery. This, too, shall pass.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#10. For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God

John Calvin

#11. And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

Jewel

#12. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#13. To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Jean Genet

#14. That man smokes a pipe, and that man drinks liquor - but I do believe he is a Christian!

Molly Worthen

#15. A lovely little wooden cottage in the depths of a forest is the most beautiful palace a king or any man can ever have!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#17. I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two.

Billy Campbell

#18. Your sister Betsey Trotwood...

Charles Dickens

#19. What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness - this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.

Pema Chodron

#20. There s only one way to deal with misery ... I say Avoid it

Barbara Johnson

#21. What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.

Pope Paul VI

#23. Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Bianca Jagger

#24. Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Tom Felton

#27. To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

Robert Green Ingersoll