A Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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Laurell K. Hamilton
American - Writer
Born: February 19, 1963

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Brett Hull

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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.

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I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

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David D. Burns

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

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