Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
tiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.ag/acorhvan · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
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/otklgivp · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · submitted 1997
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
tiny.ag/skqow6n0 · submitted 1997
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
tiny.ag/sayxpjvp · submitted 1997
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · 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/gnwfh5op · 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/z2rhcpai · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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