Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/jqzdfysr · submitted 1997
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/tizoguw5 · submitted 1997
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/mnlokyg7 · submitted 1997
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/aejz1cav · submitted 1997
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · submitted 1997
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
tiny.ag/u4yrbtrm · submitted 1997
In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.
tiny.ag/k92gvbst · submitted 1997
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
tiny.ag/sotcjfde · submitted 1997
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
tiny.ag/un7qhxcv · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/jhbofhcv · submitted 1997
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ftbq0ees · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
tiny.ag/edsop9bf · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
tiny.ag/mu8iz5pd · submitted 1997
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
tiny.ag/k6fomrdi · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams.
Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/h7togzxv · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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