Thursday 12 June 2008

Happiness for an hour, a day, a month, a year or a lifetime?

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month, get married.
If you want happiness for a year , inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

~Old Chinese Proverb

5 comments:

Farhan Hafeez said...

Nice :) .. was unpredictable :P

Saira Andleeb said...

that means if you ever get married you ought to help someone else !!!

:P

khany said...

its interesting that the old chinese sage decided that happiness in marriage lasts for a month :)

khany said...

reminded me of a short piece on the value of different portions of time. see below:

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who! Are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE-SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

(source: popular uncredited email forward)

Syra said...

really nice...this email has crossed my inbox too. thanks for sharing. infact i'll put it up as a seperate blogpost :).