Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (400 ratings) · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
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/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · ★★☆☆ Fair (2762 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/tizoguw5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1190 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/aejz1cav · ★★☆☆ Fair (1079 ratings) · submitted 1997
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/sayxpjvp · ★★☆☆ Fair (301 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
tiny.ag/mnlokyg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1045 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/vg1rxate · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
tiny.ag/ma20i7eo · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
tiny.ag/mzhz0ofe · ★★☆☆ Fair (215 ratings) · submitted 1997
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
tiny.ag/acorhvan · ★★☆☆ Fair (281 ratings) · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
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.
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