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If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
André Gide
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
Thomas Morton
Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.
Boxcar Bertha
Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
Barbara Gordon
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugène Ionesco
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.
Tom O'Connor
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Shirley Hazzard
It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.
Lena Home
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith
Despair is criminal.
Samuel Johnson
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?
Martin Marty
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
John W. Raper
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Cyril Connolly
He who complains sins.
Saint Francis de Sales
This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau
There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.
Linda Harry
Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.
Christian N. Barnard
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
Samuel Johnson
The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
D.H. Lawrence
When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.
John Keble
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
Lucan
Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Elizabeth Elliot
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Anonymous
I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
André Maurois
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
What poison is to food self-pity is to life.
Oliver C. Wilson
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson
Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.
Stephen King
To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.
Winifred Rhoades
Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.
Anonymous
To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.
Samuel Johnson
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Bible
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
James Joyce
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Bible
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
James Joyce
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
Eoin Colfer
Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.
Marcel Proust
Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.
Robert Jordan
Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague.
Ace Antonio Hall
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