Pastoral Resources

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

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

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.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

People in misery is what most important in art.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.