“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.” WorldHumansLongSelfActionOpportunityLostTermInterestLossPoorAttitudeConflictConsequenceTradeMiseryInjusticeAidsLong TermCollectivesMutualWealthyMultipleLinkedShort TermSelf InterestDeprivationNational InterestsCollective ActionLost OpportunityMutual Interest Author:Tony Blair
“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.” MenLifeSeemsAgeFacesSufferingSocialLossAcceptingWatchesBeatsMen And WomenMiseryDisappointmentDuesManageCustomsStomachUnusualDelayAcquaintanceTediousDenseTickZestZealousPunctureZest For LifeObfuscationTockTick TockCraftiness Author:Edward Hoagland
“The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.” YearsWarLossPerspectiveMassMiseryAlternativesCasualties Author:Boris Trajkovski
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” WayStoriesLossJourneyRegretGardenMiseryGlassesParadiseYearningTwisted Book:The Blind Assassin Source: The Blind Assassin
“The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.” PeopleFeelsPainJoyLossTaughtRevolutionUniqueMiseryComparisonLike LovePain And Loss Author:Azar Nafisi
“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?” IfsYearsLossDyingDogDiedMiserySorryFiftyPetPet DogDog LovePet LossInspirational DogDog LossDog GriefPet GriefFaithful DogsDogs DyingDog Died Author:Walter Scott