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Happiness and Misery
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# · Unrated · submitted 1999 (updated 2003)
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 2001)
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
# · Not So Good (25 ratings) · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
# · Not So Good (44 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
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
Everyone smiles in the same language.
# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Paul Jones
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you don't.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
Following the Equator (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
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
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
Pooh's Little Instruction Book (hardcover)# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1999
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery
1984 (paperback)# · Not So Good (154 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
The College Blue Book (data CD)# · Not So Good (33 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
# · Not So Good (41 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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
# · Not So Good (15 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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle
Misery is optional.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1999 by Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like — like whatever you do.
# · Not So Good (26 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998) ·
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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