Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/et1nrezw · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/h7togzxv · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
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/pw5jxnsv · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
tiny.ag/fkz5efpm · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · submitted 1997
Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.
E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/w2ghlemk · submitted 1997
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
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/tq4jumf6 · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
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