Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
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/acorhvan · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
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/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
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/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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/vg1rxate · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
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/sbgdcf8o · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
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