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Happiness and Misery

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# · Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

# · Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Dean Inge, in Happiness and Misery

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

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

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Roche, in Happiness and Misery

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Jonathan Swift, in Happiness and Misery

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire, in Happiness and Misery

# · Unrated · submitted 1998

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1998

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.

D. H. Lawrence, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Anja Klein

Live each day as if it were the last day of your life, because so far, it is.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal, in Happiness and Misery and Love and Hate

# · Unrated · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen

So go for the jump, and chase all your dreams.

Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1997

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Silas Bent, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Jerry Chin, in Happiness and Misery

# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997

Be happy. It is a way of being wise.

Colette, in Happiness and Misery

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