Ambrose Bierce - Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce - Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce - Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce - Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce - “Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”

Joseph Addison - Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Ogden Nash - Your hair may be brushed, but your mind’s untidy. You’ve had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You’re sunk from a riot of relaxation.

Thomas Aquinas - Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Henry David Thoreau - Friends…they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Kurt Vonnegut - Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

William Blake - Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Franz Schubert - Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

RN Paswan - Today is not just another day, but another possible chance to achieve what you couldn’t achieve yesterday. So get on your feet and chase after your success.

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

Pema Chodron - Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.