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Darfur may have slipped from the news headlines, but the killing and displacement there continues as well, and the sheer human misery that it creates is very hard to fathom.
Now mountaintop removal pays very little money to the locals, and it gives them a lot of misery.
And for a moment I was wondering, are we going to live in order to see real change happening on the ground, a change that does not come through foreign intervention, through the misery of occupation, through nations invading our land and deepening the sense of inferiority sometimes?
We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss.
We do enjoy our misery in a certain way.
We distract ourselves from our misery by running around somewhere, but basically we all have this common misery that we are sort of stuck inside our skins and everyone else is out there.
I was part of this sort of background noise of the misery of Zaire, completely invisible.
The point is that then we are freed up to do other things, and what we're going to do, I am very confident, what we're going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery and misery around the world.
I convinced my 10th grade English teacher to allow me to do my book report on Stephen King's "Misery" as an animated short.
No, they are full of misery.
And while I had sometimes thought the parents I was interviewing were fools, enslaving themselves to a lifetime's journey with their thankless children and trying to breed identity out of misery, I realized that day that my research had built me a plank and that I was ready to join them on their ship.
Trinculo: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
We complain about the weather, sport, about politics, about everything, but actually, complaining is viral misery.
He's experiencing firsthand the misery, fear and failure imposed on his country.
They're just living with the unimaginable consequences of a very bad decision, made based on very bad information that was put into their minds by very bad people, who know good and well the misery that they're causing, but just don't care.
We became the very instrument through which more deaths occurred, complicit in causing further misery for the selfish benefit of the cruel few.
We hear a lot of misery about the Middle East.
That was the purpose that he put into the machine, so to speak, and then his food and his drink and his relatives turned to gold and he died in misery and starvation.
But my misery had good company.
Because I see religious, national, ethnic disputes as adding to human misery.
We also know that technology, entertainment and design can be used to relieve misery.
And by the way, the distinction between relieving misery and building happiness is extremely important.
And it turns out the skills of happiness, the skills of the pleasant life, the skills of engagement, the skills of meaning, are different from the skills of relieving misery.
Conversely, I once stumbled into the perfect job, and I came to see that seeming happiness can stand in the way of true joy even more than misery does.
What they're really rejecting is an edit to their story of misery and stuckness.
In this case misery truly does love company.
So the ultimate goal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy was really what Freud called ordinary misery.
And of course we know this intuitively, that happiness is not just the absence of misery.
Anxiety can create misery for the child, and the parents are front and center in witnessing their child's distress.
Compassion helps him turn away from the feeling of his suffering as the most absolute, most terrible suffering anyone has ever had and broadens his awareness of the sufferings of others, even of the perpetrators of his misery and the whole mass of beings.
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