Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/c0gunnxj · ★★☆☆ Fair (456 ratings) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
tiny.ag/ye6jolzv · ★★☆☆ Fair (197 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.
E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/fkz5efpm · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
tiny.ag/et1nrezw · ★★☆☆ Fair (953 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
tiny.ag/0xibm9hu · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
tiny.ag/sjrepy9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · 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/6whof5gx · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
tiny.ag/yic1pkxi · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1998
The surest way of severely upsetting yourself for hours is by continuing to consider what concerns you most for a single moment too long.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/qseijf1u · ★★☆☆ Fair (294 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · ★★☆☆ Fair (336 ratings) · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/w2ghlemk · ★★☆☆ Fair (920 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Happiness and Misery
tiny.ag/jqzdfysr · ★★☆☆ Fair (243 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/rwnvamec · ★★☆☆ Fair (267 ratings) · submitted 1997
Harmony seldom makes a headline.
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