Martin Luther
Theologian
"A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass."
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Miserable
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Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created."
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death."
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"You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort."
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"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."
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"Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it."
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"Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels."
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"You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable."
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"I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed."
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". . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
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"Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?"
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"Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism."
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"He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable."
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"Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content."
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"You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey."
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"Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted."
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"If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable."
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"Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable."
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"I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another."
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"The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted."
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"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider."
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"But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise"
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"There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption ."
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