When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery. —Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love More about this quote Tags: self-image misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Suzanne Selfors Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway. —Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel More about this quote Tags: love reason rationality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway. —Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel More about this quote Tags: love reason rationality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “misery” Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. —Theodore Dreiser More about this quote Tags: soul art misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war." "Yes, sir." "You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second." "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed." ". . . Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. . . . You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive! —Joseph Heller More about this quote Tags: war ignorance maturity death misery violence surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: pain marriage misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: happiness misery comfort fun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection. —L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty More about this quote Tags: love kindness rejection vulnerability misery cruelty bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. —Theodore Dreiser More about this quote Tags: soul art misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war." "Yes, sir." "You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second." "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed." ". . . Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. . . . You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive! —Joseph Heller More about this quote Tags: war ignorance maturity death misery violence surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: pain marriage misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: happiness misery comfort fun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cruelty is easy, and it breeds only misery. Kindness is harder, and you have to be brave to give it. To be cruel, you can stay closed off from everyone, wear a mask, but to be kind, in essence, to show love, you have to make yourself vulnerable, show your true self to someone and open yourself up to rejection. —L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty More about this quote Tags: love kindness rejection vulnerability misery cruelty bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email