Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/jqzdfysr · ★★☆☆ Fair (243 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · ★★☆☆ Fair (673 ratings) · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/j7p2q06i · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
tiny.ag/rwnvamec · ★★☆☆ Fair (267 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harmony seldom makes a headline.
tiny.ag/wjruna0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (394 ratings) · submitted 1997
The gods too are fond of a joke.
tiny.ag/acorhvan · ★★☆☆ Fair (281 ratings) · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
tiny.ag/jcmdoh1n · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Anja Klein
Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is.
tiny.ag/zuqxlkhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
tiny.ag/jhu7bauz · ★★☆☆ Fair (959 ratings) · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
tiny.ag/otklgivp · ★★☆☆ Fair (813 ratings) · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/f8mrmb30 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
tiny.ag/yifsur6a · ★★☆☆ Fair (335 ratings) · submitted 1997
Here's to your love, health, and wealth -- and time to enjoy each.
Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
tiny.ag/sbgdcf8o · ★★☆☆ Fair (962 ratings) · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
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
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