A Quote by Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

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Elizabeth Edwards
American - Lawyer
July 3, 1949 - December 7, 2010

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

Jerry Stahl

Take the time to educate yourself, whether you're house hunting, deciding on materials or looking for a lender. When homeowners jump into something blind, that's always when they make mistakes.

Drew Scott

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

Joseph Priestley

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

Brett Hull

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

Bob Schieffer

Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

Jean de la Bruyere

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

Elon Musk

No matter who you are in your day-to-day life, and no matter what you look like, and whatever insecurities you're dealing with, you can fully transform yourself. It's as easy as deciding to transform yourself.

Jinkx Monsoon

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Carrie Snow

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Ray Bradbury

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

William James

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

Peter Jacobsen

My faith is central to who I am as a human being, not just as an actor - so it informs every decision I make, whether it's deciding on a project or deciding on how to treat the guy who cuts me off in traffic.

Neal McDonough

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

Chili Davis

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