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Happiness and Misery
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
George Bernard Shaw, in Happiness and Misery and Wealth and Poverty
# · Unrated · 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.
# · Unrated · 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
# · Unrated · 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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
In life, we are all in the gutter. Some of us just tend to look up at the stars.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Here's to your love, health, and wealth — and time to enjoy each.
Unknown, (Spanish proverb), in Happiness and Misery
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
If you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
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