Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 3 comments
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tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/u4yrbtrm · ★★☆☆ Fair (532 ratings) · submitted 1997
In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (400 ratings) · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · 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/z2rhcpai · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · ★★☆☆ Fair (855 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
tiny.ag/duyozlxf · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
tiny.ag/d1etleqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (843 ratings) · 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/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · ★★☆☆ Fair (1525 ratings) · 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/usitewde · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/8awizecn · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · ★★☆☆ Fair (2762 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (394 ratings) · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/j7p2q06i · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
tiny.ag/mu8iz5pd · ★★☆☆ Fair (218 ratings) · submitted 1997
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
tiny.ag/edsop9bf · ★★☆☆ Fair (282 ratings) · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
tiny.ag/h7togzxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
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