Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/d1etleqn · 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/jhu7bauz · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/jcmdoh1n · 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/acorhvan · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/sayxpjvp · submitted 1997
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
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