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«People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.»
«Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.»
«There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery»
Author: Dante Alighieri (Author, Poet) | Keywords: misery, recall
«One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: misery, sorrows
«Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.»
Author: English Proverb | Keywords: misery, seeking, straight
«Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | About: Self-knowledge | Keywords: loses, misery, resolve
«People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy»
«The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery»
«The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.»
«Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.»

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