Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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/izntlcnj · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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/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/w2ghlemk · ★★☆☆ Fair (920 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/oeren2sf · ★★☆☆ Fair (443 ratings) · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · ★★☆☆ Fair (1375 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (528 ratings) · 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/skqow6n0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (797 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · 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/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/z2rhcpai · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · ★★☆☆ Fair (855 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · ★★☆☆ Fair (997 ratings) · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (394 ratings) · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
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