"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Happiness Quotes #Way Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“Warm-heartedne ss and concern for othersâ€™ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.”
“There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”
“As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.”
“It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.”
“Trying to say something is all you got in life.”
“I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.”

Source : Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media
“I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.”

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