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/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/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
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/rwnvamec · submitted 1997
Harmony seldom makes a headline.
tiny.ag/jqzdfysr · submitted 1997
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/j7p2q06i · submitted 1997
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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