When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable. Anonymous
No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
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John Keats
Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.
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Dada Bhagwan
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
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Albert Schweitzer
I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.
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Edgar Allan Poe
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay...
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Charles Dickens
