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Happiness and Misery

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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Arthur Schopenhauer, in Happiness and Misery

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty

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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.

Dinah Shore, in Happiness and Misery

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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

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Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson, in Happiness and Misery

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau, in Happiness and Misery

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain, in Happiness and Misery

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

Mark Twain, in Happiness and Misery

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain, in Happiness and Misery

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov, in Happiness and Misery

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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Joe Walsh, in Happiness and Misery

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In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.

Oscar Wilde, in Happiness and Misery

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Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

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For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

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Here's to your love, health, and wealth — and time to enjoy each.

Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery

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If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

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Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

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Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

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To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

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