Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/tizoguw5 · submitted 1997
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/mnlokyg7 · submitted 1997
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/aejz1cav · submitted 1997
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/vg1rxate · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/ma20i7eo · submitted 1997
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/mzhz0ofe · submitted 1997
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/acorhvan · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
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/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
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