Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery.

Misery teaches you more than joy.

Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called —Scientific' Knowledge.

Love has power in it. At the end, it wins over all miseries.

It is better to sing songs of hope than to sing songs of misery.

Music dissipates every misery.

How could you be sad, when you can sing?

Life is a misery, without music.

Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.

With the love of music, there will be no misery in life.

Why are we miserable, when there is music?

... misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Nobody really cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be happy.

The trick is in what one emphasizes ... We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.