pity

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.

If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.

What poison is to food self-pity is to life.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.