The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

I just see too many people retire and say 'I'm going to take off travel spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active and like what they are doing live longer.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

When I was growing up particularly during puberty in my teen years I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple it's just gone like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Even if you're unhappy just pretend that you're happy. Eventually your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think 'I'm being fake ' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

But I'm not like sad depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts because they probably think I'm this dark twisted miserable person.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion you have got a leak in your religion.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak that you are a sinner a miserable creature and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read I refused to do so.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a movie/musical.'

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done it's always your choice.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor ya know?

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.