Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
61–76 (76)
tiny.ag/sjrepy9y · submitted 1997
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/et1nrezw · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
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/tnv5wb46 · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
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/usitewde · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · submitted 1997
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
tiny.ag/duyozlxf · submitted 1997
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
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/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
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/dlefcimh · submitted 1997
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
61–76 (76)