Happiness and Misery

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman, in Happiness and Misery

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Silas Bent, in Happiness and Misery

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon, in Happiness and Misery

Misery is optional.

S. Gilmary Beagle, in Happiness and Misery

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.

Tristan Eggener, in Happiness and Misery

Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain, in Happiness and Misery

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery