“Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.” ForgetAttentionProduceBuddhismDisciplineMindfulnessSittingMiseryContemplatingSitting Around Author:Frederick Lenz
“What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.” IfsMenWorldShouldBelievePersonsWholeEarthOrderChanceSecretProduceTasteInstrumentsMiseryIntentionConfusionAgentsPreservesFancyProvidenceComplaintsChances AreTotalityContinuationRegularityBest IntentionsSecret Agent Book:The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford Source: The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford
“Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.” HumansKindEarthJobsPassionCenturyHavensProduceCircumstancesPicksMiseryBoringChange For The BetterLoveless Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.” SoulEvilBlackWaterProduceMiseryFaultsPoolRootedFilthPitch Black Book:Interior Castle Source: Interior Castle
“Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.” ProduceDependsConflictWasteResourcesMiseryClimateClimate ChangeScalesIdeologyGovernanceScarcityLarge ScaleArmed Conflict Author:Steven Pinker