Sentence examples for avoiding misery from inspiring English sources

"Reason, being cool and disengaged, is no motive to action, and directs only the impulse received from appetite or inclination, by showing us the means of attaining happiness or avoiding misery: Taste, as it gives pleasure or pain, and thereby constitutes happiness or misery, becomes a motive to action, and is the first spring or impulse to the desire and volition" (ECMP 88).

Others complained that he idealized American life because by depicting wholesome, healthy, and happy sentiments Rockwell depicted the good that was remembered or wished for, but by avoiding misery, poverty, and social unrest, he failed to demonstrate command of the bad and the ugly parts of American life.

We were being encouraged to be even more miserable, and if I can avoid misery, I want to do that".

Whereas strict right functions merely to avoid misery by fostering peace, the duties of equity actively promote the happiness of others as far as possible within this life.

AFTER Hurricane Katrina, Europeans rushed to congratulate themselves on avoiding the misery they saw on the faces of survivors.

I am in politics to avoid human misery.

He went into politics to avoid human misery, he says.

And mothers like Tabitha have been queuing up to vaccinate their children, to avoid the misery of seeing a child die from a disease which is entirely preventable.

He's such a pitcher of fits, tormentor of editors, haranguer on Twitter and overall basket case that he also declares about his third wife: "Lisa has told me several times that she is determined to die first to avoid the misery of taking care of me".

Through the execution or overthrow of undesirable foreign leaders, the thinking went, it might be possible to orchestrate the global struggle against Communism from a distance, and avoid the misery — and the risks of nuclear war — that out-and-out combat would bring.

Aren't you trying to avoid the misery?