"Comparison is the source of all misery."

-- Nietzsche

"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."

-- Michael Harrington

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."

-- Matthew Arnold

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

-- Carlos Castaneda

"Life is more mystery than misery."

-- Karen Salmansohn

"Misery is almost always a result of thinking."

-- Joseph Joubert