Misery is moving away from knowledge and holding on to desires.

Life is 80% joy and 20% misery. But you hold on to the 20% and make it 200%! It is not a conscious act, it just happens.

If you don’t crave for joy, misery won't touch you. If you don’t crave for peace, nothing will disturb you.

Sankalpa is not always misery. The whole world runs with Sankalpa, holding on to it creates problem.

Happiness is in being big minded, putting your mind in the small things brings misery. Just relax, whatever is yours will come to you.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

If wisdom cannot remove your misery and bring happiness, nothing else can.

That which gives you long term happiness but gives you short term misery is good for you.

When the mind moves with time there is happiness, and when the mind moves with events there is misery.

Duality, a divided mind, is the cause of fear and misery.

Addiction gives us the promise of happiness but gives only misery. Only when we experience the true happiness through techniques like the SudarshanKriya, only then can we give up the addiction.

Letting go is natural. If you feel you are unable to let go then do the opposite, hold on. Knowledge comes in opposites. You know the cold because you have experienced heat, you value happiness more because you know what is misery.

Life appears to be a burden when you are stuck in misery but when you appreciate life it's celebration.

There is no giver of happiness or misery. You create your own happiness and you become miserable on your own.

Love with selfishness, love for individual pleasure sooner or later will bring misery and heartbreak.

When the energy (in us) is low, we ask questions that only bring us more misery.

Hardship makes you deep, and strong. Sadness, and joy are complementary. Happiness causes expansion but misery brings a depth. Both are necessary.

When you are happy, then you be grateful and remember God, and when you are unhappy, you naturally remember God as you want to get rid of your misery. These are the two occasions when your prayer is very authentic: when you are totally grateful or two, when you are suffering.

There is a saying in Sanskrit, 'There is no giver of happiness or misery. You create your own happiness and you become miserable on your own, and nobody can stop you from being miserable'.

Lack of love in life causes misery. Fear of losing love causes misery. And craving for it causes misery.