Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/aejz1cav · ★★☆☆ Fair (1079 ratings) · submitted 1997
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/mnlokyg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1045 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/tizoguw5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1190 ratings) · submitted 1997
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/vg1rxate · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/mzhz0ofe · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
tiny.ag/ma20i7eo · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · ★★☆☆ Fair (997 ratings) · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · ★★☆☆ Fair (589 ratings) · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · ★★☆☆ Fair (673 ratings) · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/duyozlxf · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
tiny.ag/usitewde · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
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/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/jqzdfysr · ★★☆☆ Fair (243 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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/k6fomrdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (273 ratings) · 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/krxruwjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1238 ratings) · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/h7togzxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
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