A Quote by Mignon G. Eberhart

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

Mignon G. Eberhart

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Mignon G. Eberhart
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July 6, 1899 - October 8, 1996

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Michel de Montaigne

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Marcelene Cox

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Mary Wortley Montagu

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Anthony Daniels

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

Mahatma Gandhi

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

Shinjo Ito

Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

Ovid

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas More

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Sam Levenson

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Edward Abbey

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Saint Ignatius

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

C. S. Lewis

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

Sydney J. Harris

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

Mary Pope Osborne

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