Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/d1etleqn · submitted 1999
It is not the bad times on which we should dwell, it is only poison to the mind and soul. We shall rise up after we fall, and continue to go on -- dwelling on the good, high-spirited times of our lives.
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/acorhvan · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
tiny.ag/yifsur6a · submitted 1997
Here's to your love, health, and wealth -- and time to enjoy each.
Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
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.
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