Top 100 Misery Happiness Quotes
#1. The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.
Charles Darwin
#2. Misery! - happiness is to be found by its side!
Lao-Tzu
#3. Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
#8. 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
#9. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#10. All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
Aristotle.
#11. Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.
Lao-Tzu
#12. 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
#13. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.
Miya Yamanouchi
#14. Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.
Deepak Chopra
#15. 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
#16. Money is not the cure for misery but changing our perception is.
Debasish Mridha
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.
Steve Maraboli
#20. 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
#21. Happiness exists where misery doesn't
Feroz Bham
#22. Happiness is often hidden in misery; light appears brighter in darkness.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Despite all the sadness, violence and misery, I still believe in universal peace, goodness, and beauty of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.
Dada Bhagwan
#29. 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
#30. Either enjoy happiness or enjoy misery. The choice is yours.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
John Locke
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. A closed heart only creates misery and sadness. An open heart creates love and happiness.
G.E.F. Neilson
#36. 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
#37. All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
Aristotle.
#38. Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.
Louis De Bernieres
#39. I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a
Martha Washington
#40. I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.
John Caudwell
#41. I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#43. If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting this would help turn our Earth into a paradise.
Bertrand Russell
#44. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.
Pierre Bayle
#47. Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
William Hazlitt
#48. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
Daniel Kahneman
#49. Like most misery, it started out with apparent happiness. - The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
#50. My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.
Debasish Mridha
#51. He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#52. There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
Henry Fielding
#53. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens
#54. Notice those gorgeous homes that represent happiness, glory and domination; they are naught but caverns of misery and distress.
Kahlil Gibran
#55. Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Laozi
#56. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#57. No misery to be saved from . . . So evil is necessary, in order to the highest happiness of the creature, and the completeness of that communication of God, for which he made the world; because the creature's
Austin Fischer
#58. I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.
Hugh Laurie
#60. We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
#61. No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
Dante Alighieri
#62. That happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reaced or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry with you doggedly through everything.
Laini Taylor
#63. Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#65. The long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself
Alan Sillitoe
#66. Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.
S. N. Goenka
#67. Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
#68. I am glad you are happy
but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Theodore Dalrymple
#71. Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)
Richelle E. Goodrich
#72. Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is properly done it brings happiness, and when carried out incorrectly it assuredly brings misery. Humanity! Your will is paramount! You can command Nature if you but obey her!
Viktor Schauberger
#73. If you're always grateful for what you have, then you will always be happy. The greatest reason for misery and unhappiness today is because of dissatisfaction, complaining, and being ungrateful for the things we have.
Jeanette Coron
#74. 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
#75. It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.
Rajneesh
#77. Dare to feel the joy of life even in the midst of misery.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#79. Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
Ludwig Von Mises
#80. Oh thee! Lets fill my mind with joy of kindness to make joyful me.
Let me see the sufferings and agony.
Let me feel the sadness and misery.
Still be kind to thee.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
Oli Anderson
#82. It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#83. Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
Rob Thomas
#84. Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Deepak Chopra
#85. That which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
David Hume
#86. One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.
Phineas Quimby
#87. A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
L. Frank Baum
#88. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.
Brent Jones
#89. Let us talk about our love, joy and happiness. Let us forgive and forget talking about misery and sadness.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of Happiness, Joy & Bliss. Live each day in Happiness.-RVM
R.v.m.
#91. Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Red Skelton
#92. We need a great deal to be miserable, but very little to be happy.
Marty Rubin
#93. She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such happiness, instantly.
Jane Austen
#94. 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
#95. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.
Bertrand Russell
#96. Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#97. Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.
Rajneesh
#98. I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
#99. That's what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.
Stefanos Livos
#100. The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were.
Swami Vivekananda
