Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 3 comments
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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/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/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/pw5jxnsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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/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/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/oeren2sf · ★★☆☆ Fair (443 ratings) · submitted 1997
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
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/wmcjiaqo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/d1etleqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (843 ratings) · 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/8awizecn · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · ★★☆☆ Fair (2762 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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