Happiness and Misery

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jerry Chin, in Happiness and Misery

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

Francis Bacon, in Happiness and Misery

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Silas Bent, in Happiness and Misery

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman, in Happiness and Misery

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron, in Happiness and Misery

Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.

Tristan Eggener, in Happiness and Misery

Here's to your love, health, and wealth -- and time to enjoy each.

Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

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

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle, in Happiness and Misery

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams.

Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Happiness and Misery

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov, in Happiness and Misery