#happines

The most important reason for your “no” is that you need your downtime so you won’t behave like a jerk because you’re depleted. And you don’t want to battle an appetite spiked by the stress of overcommitment. But that’s your secret; others don’t need that information. So just smile, say no, thank you, and keep moving. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#overcoming-obstacles #peace-of-mind #purpose #stress #stress

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one. ↗

— Wei Wu Wei

#happiness #buddhism

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance. ↗

— Graham Greene

#evil #happiness #ignorance #selfishness

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#happiness #knowing #knowledge #literature #literature-quotes

Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over; when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#gloom #hopelessness #misery #regret #richelle

Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #joy #rainbow #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#wisdom #fairy-tales

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods ↗

— Edith Wharton

#happiness #romance #romance-novels

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#happiness #money #money