If we're miserable now, as we evaluate our lives. .then we'll just become more and more miserable

It looks like everyone's poor and desperate, but that's not really how it is.

My parents made themselves absolutely miserable by having an exaggerated idea about the importance of money.

The chance is small indeed, but with a smaller chance they would have dug desperately for her in the pit.

That you could be so cruel, to throw out on the street an old woman and six helpless children.