Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/z2rhcpai · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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/mu8iz5pd · submitted 1997
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ftbq0ees · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
tiny.ag/edsop9bf · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
tiny.ag/k6fomrdi · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams.
Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/k92gvbst · submitted 1997
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
tiny.ag/h7togzxv · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
tiny.ag/u4yrbtrm · submitted 1997
In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.
tiny.ag/un7qhxcv · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
tiny.ag/jhbofhcv · submitted 1997
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
tiny.ag/qseijf1u · submitted 1997
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/sotcjfde · submitted 1997
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
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