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1 " I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved, and want to feel they're important to someone. If you really examine all the wrongheaded and messed-up things they do, they can most often be traced back to that basic desire. The abusers, the addicted, the cruel and unpleasant, the manipulators --these are just people who started this quest for happiness in the basement of their lives. Someone communicated to them through word or deed that they were undeserving, so they think they have to claw their way there over the backs of others, leaving scars and creating damage. Of course, they only create more misery for themselves and others. "
― Lisa Unger , Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones, #2)
2 " There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. "
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
3 " Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
4 " What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose. "
― Thomas Jefferson , Letters of Thomas Jefferson
5 " Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. "
