Happiness and Misery

76 aphorisms · 5 comments

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tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones

Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.

Paul Jones, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/wjruna0x · submitted 1997

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/j7p2q06i · submitted 1997

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/rwnvamec · submitted 1997

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Silas Bent, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/jqzdfysr · submitted 1997

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · submitted 1999

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

Daisaku Ikeda, (World Tribune, Oct. 29, 1999, p. 5), in Happiness and Misery and Science and Religion

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.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/otklgivp · submitted 1999

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle

Misery is optional.

S. Gilmary Beagle, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/duyozlxf · submitted 1997

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/usitewde · submitted 1997

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Dean Inge, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · submitted 1999

Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.

Tristan Eggener, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · submitted 1999

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

tiny.ag/yifsur6a · submitted 1997

Here's to your love, health, and wealth -- and time to enjoy each.

Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · submitted 1997

If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/acorhvan · submitted 1997

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · submitted 1997

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero

Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

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