Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/ftbq0ees · ★★☆☆ Fair (412 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
tiny.ag/u4yrbtrm · ★★☆☆ Fair (532 ratings) · submitted 1997
In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/sotcjfde · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · 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/qseijf1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (294 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fkz5efpm · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
tiny.ag/et1nrezw · ★★☆☆ Fair (953 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
tiny.ag/yic1pkxi · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1998
The surest way of severely upsetting yourself for hours is by continuing to consider what concerns you most for a single moment too long.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · ★★☆☆ Fair (456 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/sjrepy9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
tiny.ag/6whof5gx · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
tiny.ag/un7qhxcv · ★★☆☆ Fair (344 ratings) · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (197 ratings) · 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/w2ghlemk · ★★☆☆ Fair (920 ratings) · 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/nwd35ukj · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · 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/duyozlxf · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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