Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Misery is easy to find when we look for it….jh JIMBO HENDERSON We tell the kids all the time: It's all about acts. This is a real life lesson. When you see misery,... JEFFREY DAVIS I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also THOMAS BROWNE SR. Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap. STEPHEN RICHARDS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Misery is a state of unconciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing,... OSHO When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially av... FRANZ LISZT When we blame others for our misery, we miss a precious opportunity to grow.. JOHN B. BEJO Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pre... ERICA JONG Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pre... ERICA JONG This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes be... AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as th... R.C. SPROUL I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you do... BILL BURR Our job when we come in is to create a spark. When we go in we want to make something happen and cha... LIZ MCCARRELL When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments. JOE ABERCROMBIE Our environment is changing, and we must change with it. DIDIER LOMBARD What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything. DONNA QUESADA There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy. DANTE ALIGHIERI There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. DANTE ALIGHIERI In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... It is easy to make promises to help those in misery. But if they stay in misery and one claims they ... JAIME CONTRERAS We want to let people know about Kershaw. It is changing, and we want to help make the town bigger a... JAMIE MILLER How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the exce... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing t... RICHIE NORTON We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It’s as if we we... GRAHAM GREENE Why categorise people Are we products of our own bias and misery? ROSE MESQUITA Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yo... JIM ROHN When Misery calls; you answer with screams of poor me, oh me. All to forget that you made the choice... SUSIE L HILL The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly. LEROY HOOD Changing from one style of refrigerator to another is a smaller and easier change than changing the ... BETSY WEATHERHEAD I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the mise... ARTHUR GOLDEN The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe whe... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery withou... BLAISE PASCAL Just because misery loves company doesn't mean that I want to be in the company of misery. RAHEEM ASKIA You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. GORDON PARKS You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the w... TUPAC SHAKUR Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But wh... JOHN C. MAXWELL A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We cannot continue talking about a way forward when we know the way forward is to change the constit... LOVEMORE MADHUKU Many aspire to change the world but few realize that everyone accomplishes that goal. Each day you l... ANON. I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. SHARON SALZBERG The accelerating change of technology ? it's changing the way we shop and the way we play games. ANITA FRAZIER When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES We can never flee the misery that is within us. ARTHUR GOLDEN If we want to make this world a better place. We need to change our selves first. If you know where ... VICTOR WERNET We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. ... HENRY CLOUD Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ar... PETER MARSHALL Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't... NICOLE CHRISTIE Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out ... BRANDON GARIC NOTCH My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice a... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changi... BARBARA JORDAN Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. I... CASSANDRA CLARE There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot... ELEANOR BROWN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Why do we, as women, accept the crumbs thrown our way when we know in our hearts that we deserve the... STACEY CHARTER People change. Sometimes I think they don't know they're changing until it's already happened, thoug... LINDSEY KELK We had to change. Times were changing. DICK CATRI When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are misera... LIEZI Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... MARISSA MEYER See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you... SOURCE UNKNOWN It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, an... FLEA Change your attitude and you change your life. You cannot control what happens to you in your ... ROY BENNETT What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON To be who we should be, realize first that we all have paths in life we can go down the good or bett... GARY F EVANS... Making an effort or not making an effort is a choice we make by analyzing the outcome before making ... SHAHENSHAHHK Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you fi... CECELIA AHERN If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumpt... MIGUEL RUIZ Misery is lost when gratitude is found. JEFFREY BENJAMIN What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be ... C. JOYBELL C. In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don... C. S. LEWIS If you want to change the world, why don't you start with yourself MINA TADROS We only care about our faults when we realize them. DANIEL MELGAçO When we want to see change, nothing happens, it's only when we change our perspective change occurs. TAMIKA BARROW Before we can change laws, we have to change attitudes, including many within our own church. It's i... BISHOP TAFOYA If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and dont ... ROBERT ATWELL Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, bea... FAITH HUNTER It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. JOHANN VON GOETHE It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afte... MIKE YANKOSKI We can't change the world, but we can change its people.
But if the people is the world,technically ... RISHNIEL I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER
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