Happiness and Misery

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Dean Inge, in Happiness and Misery

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard, in Happiness and Misery

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

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.

Austin Holmes, in Happiness and Misery

Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.

Steve Henthorn, in Happiness and Misery

Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.

Samuel Hazo, in Happiness and Misery

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown, 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

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

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

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

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

Unknown, 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