A Quote by Martha Beck

If you're miserable, make a choice. 
 If you're still miserable, you can choose again. — © Martha Beck
If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.
You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.
You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.
Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
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