Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/izntlcnj · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · 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 · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
tiny.ag/et1nrezw · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/6whof5gx · 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/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/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/jqzdfysr · submitted 1997
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/aejz1cav · 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/mnlokyg7 · 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/tizoguw5 · 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/rwnvamec · submitted 1997
Harmony seldom makes a headline.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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