Happiness and Misery
76 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/skqow6n0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (797 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
tiny.ag/gnwfh5op · ★★☆☆ Fair (1525 ratings) · 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/bjsd3gdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (3008 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
tiny.ag/tnv5wb46 · ★★☆☆ Fair (855 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
tiny.ag/usitewde · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
tiny.ag/z2rhcpai · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (400 ratings) · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/tq4jumf6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (409 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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/qhqk8egu · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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/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/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/kiehwrll · ★★☆☆ Fair (673 ratings) · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/vg1rxate · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
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/r8nedjty · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1998
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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