Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/qseijf1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (294 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/yic1pkxi · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1998
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
tiny.ag/6whof5gx · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · ★★☆☆ Fair (456 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/sjrepy9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · 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/et1nrezw · ★★☆☆ Fair (953 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (197 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · 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/jcmdoh1n · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Anja Klein
Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is.
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · ★★☆☆ Fair (959 ratings) · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · ★★☆☆ Fair (813 ratings) · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
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