Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
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/mfx0o8sc · submitted 1997
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · submitted 1999
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
tiny.ag/w2ghlemk · submitted 1997
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/vg1rxate · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/ma20i7eo · submitted 1997
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
tiny.ag/mzhz0ofe · submitted 1997
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/j7p2q06i · submitted 1997
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/skqow6n0 · submitted 1997
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
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/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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