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e1dc247 People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. world kindness goodness honesty happiness misattributed-to-mother-teresa Kent M. Keith
8b3d6a7 Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. happiness love Robert A. Heinlein
08263f7 Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. happiness inspirational Dalai Lama XIV
9c3fb34 Promise Yoursel strength optimism happiness love inspirational Christian D. Larson
20c6903 Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. kindness choice inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational attitude giving respect choices Roy T. Bennett
332e789 It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. happiness life inspirational attitude contentment Dale Carnegie
9d96e68 The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. risk happiness Chuck Palahniuk
9d1e7dc If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. live happy letting-go-of-the-past future inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes living happiness life inspirational living-in-the-present living-now living-life living-life-to-the-fullest worry focus Roy T. Bennett
a8fc113 Hop new-year happiness hope inspirational Alfred Lord Tennyson
2cbbdb0 Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands. responsibility inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
9631e6e "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery--air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy." nature happiness Sylvia Plath
401bdb8 Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals gratitude leadership inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational goal leader goals Roy T. Bennett
e321dd7 Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. moving-on history letting-go destiny motivational success happiness life inspirational let-go Steve Maraboli
81a9dc7 Happiness [is] only real when shared marriage family happiness love inspirational Jon Krakauer
ff128ce Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. time happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational anger worry grudge regret Roy T. Bennett
6effeb4 The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. jealousy friendship success humor happiness inspirational Bette Midler
58f3134 Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. appreciate relationship inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational value smile respect laugh Roy T. Bennett
fabad96 It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a . happiness stories Haruki Murakami
0413dd8 Top 15 Things Money Can't Bu money time integrity character trust inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes happiness life love inspirational common-sense class manners inner-peace dignity health respect morals patience Roy T. Bennett
bffe041 Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. acts-of-kindness opportunity kindness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational smile Roy T. Bennett
4eb43db please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you. happiness life inspirational Stephen Chbosky
fdda1e9 Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
f0bc2df Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational living-now Roy T. Bennett
c120ff9 The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. misattributed-to-chalmers misattributed-to-joseph-addison misattributed-tom-bodett widely-misattributed happiness inspirational misattributed-to-kant George Washington Burnap
c8e2f8b Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. empowerment motivational life-lessons happiness inspirational problems Steve Maraboli
fc9628c Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. mind happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational attitude mindset Roy T. Bennett
3eaef77 Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. action ability gratitude motivational success happiness life inspirational moving-forward problems Steve Maraboli
a1eff44 I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. happiness Neil Gaiman
4658b9f With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. laughter shakespeare happiness William Shakespeare
e5f1ff1 There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. being-human humanism human humanity inspirational-quotes life-and-living living sadness inspiring happiness life inspirational human-nature C. JoyBell C.
2fdec0d What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. sadness happiness life kronofobi judgement reincarnation Friedrich Nietzsche
8689a84 There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. be-yourself women beauty success happiness life inspirational comfortable imperfection body-image rare Steve Maraboli
ba0c6d8 A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness. nature work music happiness life neighborliness usefulness conduct-of-life country rest contentment Leo Tolstoy
a6b65dd "Ester asked why people are sad. "That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams." future sadness happiness life plans Paulo Coelho
4d680af Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational smile Roy T. Bennett
26f789b A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational smiles smile smiling Roy T. Bennett
6d40325 Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try. mind inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
a4ebd3d I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. happiness space Elizabeth Gilbert
2a93c03 Laughter is poison to fear. laughter fear happiness catelyn-stark george-r-r-martin wise poison George R.R. Martin
bcc269d I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye. commit relationship motivational happiness life love inspirational breakup deserve goodbye respect Steve Maraboli
57f76df A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. happiness inspirational mathematical advice Jodi Picoult
f4f392a After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony. happiness love torment Paulo Coelho
8ab7127 You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
ce36b11 Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you'll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward. learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational mistake Roy T. Bennett
4477c70 With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams philosophical happiness inspirational Max Ehrmann
a146c58 The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. beauty happiness love inspirational Louisa May Alcott
7fce05f And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. grief happiness confusion J.D. Salinger
68f31fe That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! happiness Bill Watterson
b8bf2a4 It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, positive-living money kindness spirit compassion self-awareness spirituality happiness life love philosophy wisdom inspirational purposeful-living happy-life attention oneness purpose-in-life positive-attitude purpose-of-life meaning-of-life self-discovery perspective meditation purpose revelation peace respect Amit Ray
1a415ab I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. happiness inspirational Audrey Hepburn
a2f1462 I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. happiness inspirational J. Richard Lessor
dc10265 There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. friendship happiness inspirational Charlotte Brontë
33bdd99 I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. marriage self-determination independence freedom empowerment happiness love courtship husbands singles wooing William Shakespeare
e3619b2 This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. nature honesty happiness life love inspirational forest power Susan Polis Schutz
36fadd4 The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. artists pain happiness evil Ursula K. LeGuin
2531315 It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. lovers marriage relationships christianity spirituality religion god happiness philosophy relationship-with-god unhappy-marriage church expectations Fulton J. Sheen
eef149b Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
9d91f94 My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. happiness inspirational salvation Ayn Rand
91fa883 Why Not You inspirational-poem motivational happiness life inspirational seize-the-day Steve Maraboli
b6ae32e If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. war politics change happiness philosophy contests data popular brilliance taxation information motion questioning worry facts government peace ignorance thinking forget Ray Bradbury
29bc0ec The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. opportunity spirituality positivity success happiness law-of-attraction millionaire-mindset new-age stephen-richards wealth-creation mind-power visualization life-changing self-help manifestation Stephen Richards
129f96b Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. being-human humanism human humanity learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy human-nature Roy T. Bennett
4be05c7 The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. happiness giving selflessness selfishness Gretchen Rubin
c171b31 Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. heartbreak happiness Gregory David Roberts
d417512 All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. happiness inspirational cynicism Conan O'Brien
ecd5182 My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. strengthen defeat past motivational success happiness life inspirational define Steve Maraboli
0096aca Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. happiness heart chocolate bittersweet simplicity torture Joanne Harris
3bae143 Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. action abundance nature choice motivational success happiness hope love inspirational Steve Maraboli
aef99ea "Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. relationships depression morality happiness depression-humor the-key-to-happiness oscar-wilde marriage-advice sins self-pity narcissism self-improvement pride vice self-help sin Stephen Fry
bb2d708 It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be. future learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational live-in-the-present worry Roy T. Bennett
95831ab Love is too precious to be ashamed of. prejudice romance happiness love inspirational Laurell K. Hamilton
45a371d Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart. happy-heart happy inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness heart life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
5ecedcc Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life change inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism happiness life inspirational Roy T. Bennett
9f4fab9 But what was there to say grief sadness happiness love inspirational emptiness forbidden quietness laws Arundhati Roy
cbc4408 But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. grief sadness happiness love inspirational forbidden quietness laws Arundhati Roy
9f5f257 Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running--that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all. happiness Jack Kerouac
d1e379a Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. happy happiness inspirational Hafez
0109807 It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream. wonder happiness morella short-story Edgar Allan Poe
4b10f77 Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy. happiness prestige society Ayn Rand
757c081 it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
de83024 Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever. happiness life philosophy truth wisdom inspirational forgiveness knowledge Wil Zeus
d9f8e15 Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. happiness philosophy inspirational being-loved Leo Tolstoy
df82952 Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us. death happiness moment-of-being tom-stoppard utopias meaning-of-life Tom Stoppard
87218e3 So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. pain happy happiness life feel taste little strong F. Scott Fitzgerald
4d558be The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice. happiness Adam Smith
c84bcc0 Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. karma self-reformation humanism destiny happiness inspirational buddhism peace Daisaku Ikeda
27b71d6 When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. chaos-of-life inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking optimism happiness life inspirational smiles smile Roy T. Bennett
153990e I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. happiness Elizabeth Gilbert
056f37b "If I had a camera," I said, "I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life." "I look exactly the same." "No, you don't. You're changing all the time. Every day a tiny bit. If I could, I'd keep a record of it all." "If you're so smart, how did I change today?" "You got a fraction of a millimeter taller, for one thing. Your hair grew a fraction of a millimeter longer. And your breasts grew a fraction of a--" "They did not!" "Yes, they did." "Did NOT." "Did too." "What else, you big pig?" "You got a little happier and also a little sadder." "Meaning they cancel out each other, leaving me exactly the same." "Not at all. The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also become a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and the saddest you've ever been in your whole life." "How do you know?" "Think about it. Have you ever been happier or sadder than right now, lying here in this grass?" "I guess not. No." "And have you ever been sadder?" "No." "It isn't like that for everyone, you know. Some people[...]" "What about you? Are you the happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you." romance sadness happiness Nicole Krauss
2858458 There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations reality happiness Jodi Picoult
325c81c Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. wealth happiness life Alexandre Dumas
ed6d6bf Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. unhappiness living happiness inspirational waiting Ann Brashares
923b54e Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. happiness inspirational Aeschylus
2c7d8de My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy. dan-howell danisnotonfire happiness life inspirational youtube Dan Howell
9582da5 Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing. spirit beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living destiny happiness life truth inspirational belief-quotes life-experience belief beautiful C. JoyBell C.
0d9fab8 Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. pain faith living positivity happiness hope life love stoicism misery T.H. White
4cc5086 I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me. humanism freedom spirit inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living destiny inspiring happiness life inspirational stained-glass-window C. JoyBell C.
90bc1f2 It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. happiness George Saunders
10e690b If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity. story humanity motivational success happiness life inspirational hero Steve Maraboli
a7c7ff4 To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. sex inspiration religion happiness love connection Dan Simmons
750c12e Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. virtue religion god happiness inspirational mormonism Joseph Smith
a53ee01 My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. happiness inspirational acceptance Michael J. Fox
779566b "In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant "now," even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so." joy optimism happiness hope life Orhan Pamuk
d1429ff With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. reading happiness Haruki Murakami
470beea If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change happiness oromis-to-eragon Christopher Paolini
3a167d0 I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more... happiness life journal Sylvia Plath
36ba672 I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a happiness inspirational attitude Martha Washington
f095e4c We have to go. I'm almost happy here. happiness Orson Scott Card
40e71ab Dear Human happiness love inspirational healing Courtney A. Walsh
46ba787 When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed. The Enemy of Old fucking . Dear gods, it'd finally happened to him. Happiness. Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me. funny happiness lothaire immortals-after-dark kresley-cole Kresley Cole
b309828 You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift... YOU! be-yourself be-you kindness motivational success happiness inspirational respect self-esteem Steve Maraboli
5e530ee Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. happiness life inspirational adversity hard-times Thisuri Wanniarachchi
7d5cd7f If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. motivational success happiness life inspirational gas fuel opinion journey Steve Maraboli
20471d6 When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it. opportunity spirituality positivity success happiness law-of-attraction new-age stephen-richards wealth-creation mind-power visualization goal-setting life-changing focus self-help manifestation Stephen Richards
f53b4c3 If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. suffering optimism happiness William Faulkner
ceb1e93 It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine. friendship happiness love inspirational Sarah Dessen
408982a Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. happiness David Mitchell
6ad0291 "Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?" happiness intelligence life idiots Orhan Pamuk
6485917 The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. responsibility change success happiness inspirational victim potential personal-responsibility power Steve Maraboli
7cedbdd The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. relationships inspiration motivation happiness planet sharing gardening eating food Michael Pollan
f6806a8 Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. happiness Stephen R. Covey
61e9a13 A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself. self-knowledge true-to-yourself happiness life inspirational authenticity Steve Maraboli
b2af367 "Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!" fate happy destiny happiness tides-have-turned blessing turning-point heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson frank-zhang house-of-hades nico-di-angelo rick-riordan battle surprise fortune luck Rick Riordan
418c6e0 I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool. happiness jailbird peace Kurt Vonnegut
2271160 Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance. happiness ignorance evil Graham Greene
cea0da9 People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can't humour happiness Stephen Fry
8fa08be I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die! happiness hope society Jean Anouilh
6d7278e Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. happiness life inspirational rejection Steve Maraboli
d5188fc "Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way." happiness cinderella carriage fairy-tale lily Rachel Cohn
25aac50 When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. happiness self-indulgence Tom Robbins
7af99c7 A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy woman women happiness John Irving
2e6fd0b Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. happiness society judgement movies eyes Katherine Dunn
30aa451 When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. best-version version inspire motivational success happiness life inspirational being-yourself Steve Maraboli
4f8627a The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon. responsibility world happiness Paulo Coelho
3a06451 She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough! loneliness satisfaction sadness happiness Virginia Woolf
30bf21a The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. happiness inspirational Desiderius Erasmus
8e004f3 Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move. progress happiness fulfillment movement innovation growth Ayn Rand
449f649 For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit. happiness life inspirational Tiffanie DeBartolo
9e5e426 Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. happiness hope life love inspirational happy-life Immanuel Kant
c3be0cb Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it. happy work happiness something job Ilona Andrews
4ef8b69 Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. motivational happiness life inspirational destination choices Steve Maraboli
acfc5b7 The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. men true-love relationships strength happiness love inspirational embrace Steve Maraboli
9a23056 Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. happiness inspirational water Santosh Kalwar
6ec22cc Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over joy sadness optimism happiness life misattributed-dr-seuss crying smile smiling josh stern
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