Happiness and Misery

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

 Ingrid Bergman, in  Happiness and Misery

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.

 Austin Holmes, in  Happiness and Misery

The surest way of severely upsetting yourself for hours is by continuing to consider what concerns you most for a single moment too long.

 Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in  Happiness and Misery

Life is short. Live it up.

 Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in  Happiness and Misery and  Life and Death

Living well is the best revenge.

 George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in  Happiness and Misery

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

 John Stuart Mill, in  Happiness and Misery

If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.

 Jimmy Buffett, in  Happiness and Misery

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

Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.

 Steve Henthorn, in  Happiness and Misery

Everyone smiles in the same language.

 Unknown, in  Happiness and Misery

Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.

 Paul Jones, in  Happiness and Misery

Be good and you will be lonesome.

 Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in  Happiness and Misery and  Vice and Virtue

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

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

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

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

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

Misery is optional.

 S. Gilmary Beagle, in  Happiness and Misery

Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.

 Tristan Eggener, in  Happiness and Misery

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.

 William Shakespeare, in  Happiness and Misery