Happiness Over Misery Quotes

#1. If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.

Charles Hodge

#2. Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

John Locke

#3. Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#4. For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

Ian McEwan

#5. But just as misery cannot crawl across an endless path, so does the trail of happiness occasionally reach a sharp end." - The Last Gift

Carla Acheson

#6. Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness!

Swami Vivekananda

#7. If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

Rajneesh

#8. When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: 'No'. And in the great distress that washed over him, Mersault realised that his rebellion was the only authentic thing in him, and that everything elsewhere was misery and submission".

Albert Camus

#10. Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Happiness is often hidden in misery; light appears brighter in darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#13. Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

George Mason

#14. as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery.

Charles Dickens

#15. A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness.

G.E.F. Neilson

#16. He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Aristotle.

#18. The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca The Younger

#19. When it was all over
the centuries started
to roll by

and history was written
by those
with no stories

misery turned into myth
and figures of speech
played catalyst
to happiness

Banoo Zan

#20. God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

John Piper

#21. Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.

Lao-Tzu

#22. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#23. 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.

Sissela Bok

#24. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.

Santideva

#25. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#26. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

#27. No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.

Fisher Amelie

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#29. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

Aristotle.

#30. Happiness exists where misery doesn't

Feroz Bham

#31. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

#32. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.

Miya Yamanouchi

#33. Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Deepak Chopra

#34. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery

Irum Zahra

#35. Money is not the cure for misery but changing our perception is.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body.

Samuel Johnson

#37. Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. 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.

Martha Washington