Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/skqow6n0 · submitted 1997
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
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
tiny.ag/z2rhcpai · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
tiny.ag/usitewde · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · submitted 1999
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.
Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/duyozlxf · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/sayxpjvp · submitted 1997
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/jcmdoh1n · submitted 1998 by Anja Klein
Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/acorhvan · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
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