Reciprocated Quotes

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- Voltaire

If only the strength of the love that people feel when
it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive
as the love we feel when it is not;
then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
- Ben Elton

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
- Addison Mizner

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
- Paul Valery

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
- Bob Nelson

The only people who steal are thieves,
and that's a very small percentage of civilization.
Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid.
They want to return the favor, if you will...
return the benefit and reciprocate.
- Michael Nesmith

Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank

Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong

Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho

We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer

If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Theodore Dreiser

I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington

Misery is the company of lawsuits.
- Francois Rabelais

Happiness lies in accepting everyone
in our lives EXACTLY as they are.
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever
we believe others to be imperfect and try to change them.
This is the number one rule for a happy relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho

If we fail to plan, we merely bob helplessly -
like a cork on the sea of life.
If we resist whatever life delivers to us,
we create untold misery for ourselves.
If we act with vision and commitment,
and then accept whatever Spirit provides,
we live a life of purpose and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap
that so much misery is produced in the world.
- William Cobbett

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother,
the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,
the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
- Eric Hoffer

My life has run from misery to happiness.
- Loretta Lynn

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the
proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle
of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
- George Grosz

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies,
a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
- Samuel Richardson

My school days were the happiest days of my life;
which should give you some indication of the misery
I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
- Paul Merton

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
- Joseph Butler

The day that I ever become hip...
please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
- Meat Loaf

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't
suffer all the misery he wants in that time,
he must be numb.
- Josh Billings

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
- John Fowles

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through
man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
- Ralph Steadman

The law was made for one thing alone,
for the exploitation of those who don't understand it,
or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
- Bertolt Brecht

He who has not the spirit of this age,
has all the misery of it.
- Voltaire

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance:
compassion puts us in mind of the debt,
and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
- Joseph Butler

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you
a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the
misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
- Lord Byron

We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness,
not by each other's misery.
- Charlie Chaplin

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China -
the greatest and oldest despotism in the world -
for a cheap working slave.
- Denis Kearney

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after
us will have to pay the price of misery,
degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
- Gifford Pinchot

Thank the Gods!
My misery exceeds all my hopes!
- Jean Racine

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
- Joseph Joubert

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
- Fiona Shaw

The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist
his most vital source of creative energy.
- Montgomery Clift

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
- Brooke Shields

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration,
and all the fair examples of renown,
out of distress and misery are grown.
- Samuel Daniel

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
- Brian Moore

Misery is a match that never goes out.
- Thomas Huxley

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
- Dante Alighieri

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly,
for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable,
ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
- Jonathan Mayhew

People in misery is what most important in art.
- Zhang Yimou

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal,
either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery,
and clear thinking can begin.
- Cyril Connolly

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural.
Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
- Anthony Trollope

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
- Philip Larkin

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
- Edward Gibbon

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
- Victor Cousin

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
- Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite;
no incident occurred from which my rage and misery
could not extract its food.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
- Alexander Smith

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting
that it can only be misery to live in folly,
illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
- Desiderius Erasmus

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I
am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
- Matt LeBlanc

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

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
- Duke of Wellington

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