Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/usitewde · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
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/duyozlxf · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
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/d1etleqn · 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/wmcjiaqo · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
tiny.ag/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/bjsd3gdi · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
tiny.ag/cgjakfr4 · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
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/r8nedjty · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
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