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One of the keys to happiness is a real bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert
I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. - Aldous Huxley
"There. There," said the marquis de Carabas, awkwardly, patting her shoulder. And he added, for good measure, "There." He did not comfort well. ~Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. ~Franz Schubert
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. ~Richard Bach, Spoken by Leslie Parrish, The Bridge Across Forever
"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all." ---Unknown
“For those who laugh, time is short, / For those who weep, time is long, / For those who love, time is not.” -Anonymous
"Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?" -J Michael Straczynski.
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. - Jonathan Swift
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Abandon hope early and avoid the rush.
I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost.
No man is an island, save I, eroded by this sea of despair. -ThunderFoot
"People may not remember exactly what you did or said but they will always remember how you made them feel."
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." - Thomas Merton
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. -Arthur Schopenhauer
It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up. - W. Somerset Maugham
I can sympathize with people's pains but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. - Aldous Huxley
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.- Mark Twain
Ignorance has brought me much more happiness than knowledge.
The cure for anything is salt-water - sweat, tears or the sea. -Isak Dinesea
The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much. -Marlon Brando
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