Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
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/dkwhzql3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (400 ratings) · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
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/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/jhu7bauz · ★★☆☆ Fair (959 ratings) · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
tiny.ag/acorhvan · ★★☆☆ Fair (281 ratings) · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · ★★☆☆ Fair (813 ratings) · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/jcmdoh1n · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · 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/zuqxlkhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
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/8awizecn · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · ★★☆☆ Fair (2762 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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