#happin

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#guilt #mistakes #passive-deathwish #regret #remorse

Coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you. ↗

— Lisa Bu

#happiness #passions #purpose #dreams

We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it. ↗

— Erik Christian Haugaard

#happiness #nightmare #dreams

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#angry #forgive #forgiveness #grudge #happiness

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#insensitivity #poverty #education

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #inspirational #friendship

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #honesty #lying #potential #self-deception

When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationships #right-one

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#happiness #experience

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#quality-of-life #experience