Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/oeren2sf · ★★☆☆ Fair (443 ratings) · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · ★★☆☆ Fair (1375 ratings) · 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/mfx0o8sc · ★★☆☆ Fair (528 ratings) · 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/w2ghlemk · ★★☆☆ Fair (920 ratings) · 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/cgjakfr4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
tiny.ag/duyozlxf · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
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/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/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/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/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/vg1rxate · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (797 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
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