Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/vg1rxate · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/ma20i7eo · submitted 1997
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
tiny.ag/mzhz0ofe · submitted 1997
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
tiny.ag/dlefcimh · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
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/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
tiny.ag/z2rhcpai · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · 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/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/j7p2q06i · submitted 1997
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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
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