Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/nwd35ukj · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · submitted 1997
Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.
E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fkz5efpm · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
tiny.ag/et1nrezw · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
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/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/duyozlxf · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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/usitewde · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
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