There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Anne Frank

Remember Laugh Forget Those

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

Exclude Compassion Pity Deal

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

Passion Strong Life Pity

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The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

Wise Fools Pity Speak

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I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt

Pity Worth Admire Creature

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

Each Friendship Incompatible Other

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There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Always Discovery Involved Serendipity

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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Eckhart Tolle

Blaming Cannot Complaining Discontent

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

Sense of smell Memories

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Forsake Helpful Human More

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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan

Broken Feel Him Laugh

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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Helen Keller

Anything Enemy Never Our

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I have contempt for the Buharists and I pity Nigeria.

Femi Fani-Kayode

Contempt Buharist Pity Nigeria

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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

Bears Beat Cracked Dance

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I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Cheap Cloth Coat Man

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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Carrie Fisher

Area Because Drag Get

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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley

Adam Arrive Conceived Eve

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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pity Heart Slow Learn

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Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Heart Pity House Bone

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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Abuse Abuse Nature Never

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I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

Marie Antoinette

Apart Brother Family Feelings

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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Laurence Sterne

Candle Certain Day Either

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I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

James A. Michener

Childhood Cycle Device Missed

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O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Thomas Hardy

Have torn My life Prayed In pity

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Lamenting and wallowing in self-pity won’t change things, things change when you do things differently, not when you perfect how to cry.

Adams Oshiomhole

Lamenting Wallowing Self pity Change things

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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Truman Capote

Loved her Forget myself Self pitying Be content

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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Amos Bronson Alcott

Pity Mother Name Implies

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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Suffering How divine Misunderstood Good in us

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Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Christina Applegate

I cry Sometimes I scream Really angry

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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

Pity The meek Shall inherit The earth

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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Samuel Richardson

What World Humanity Weak

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Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

Stefan Zweig

My pity Been stronger My will

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Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone’s destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

Stefan Zweig

Exalt yourself By devoting To others Enrich yourself

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Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

Stefan Zweig

Gone further All honesty Have done My lies

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It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Stanley Kubrick

A mistake Confuse pity With love

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We treat academic outputs as a means for individual academics to move along a career path rather than a means to reevaluate and re-engineer society. Great pity!

Chris Ihidero

We treat Academic outputs Career path Reevaluate

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Don’t be with someone out of Pity,obligation,responsibility.

Oghenekaro Itene

With someone Of pity Obligation Responsibility

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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John Gardner

Self pity Addictive Pleasure Reality

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The mistakes you make can actually be a turning point. The Almighty can turn the mistake into a huge blessing. It’s up to you to see it or are you too busy wallowing in self-pity? Don’t beat yourself up for the wrongs you commit. Use them to propel you to the next level!

Ismail Ibn Musa Menk (Mufti Menk)

Turning point Blessing Next level Commit

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There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

Anne Frank

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Theodore Roosevelt

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Oliver Goldsmith

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Jeff Bezos

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Eckhart Tolle

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Helen Keller

Femi Fani-Kayode

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Gustave Flaubert

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Carrie Fisher

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

Marie Antoinette

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Laurence Sterne

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

James A. Michener

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Thomas Hardy

Lamenting and wallowing in self-pity won’t change things, things change when you do things differently, not when you perfect how to cry.

Adams Oshiomhole

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Truman Capote

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

Amos Bronson Alcott

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

Christina Applegate

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Don Marquis

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Samuel Richardson

Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

Stefan Zweig

Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone’s destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

Stefan Zweig

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

Stefan Zweig

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Stanley Kubrick

We treat academic outputs as a means for individual academics to move along a career path rather than a means to reevaluate and re-engineer society. Great pity!

Chris Ihidero

Don’t be with someone out of Pity,obligation,responsibility.

Oghenekaro Itene

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John Gardner

The mistakes you make can actually be a turning point. The Almighty can turn the mistake into a huge blessing. It’s up to you to see it or are you too busy wallowing in self-pity? Don’t beat yourself up for the wrongs you commit. Use them to propel you to the next level!