Happiness and Misery
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tiny.ag/sjrepy9y · submitted 1997
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
tiny.ag/edsop9bf · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
tiny.ag/ftbq0ees · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
tiny.ag/mu8iz5pd · submitted 1997
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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/jhbofhcv · submitted 1997
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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/62i8fdwb · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/un7qhxcv · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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/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/yic1pkxi · submitted 1998
The surest way of severely upsetting yourself for hours is by continuing to consider what concerns you most for a single moment too long.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/6whof5gx · submitted 1997
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
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/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
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/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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