#happines

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. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#inspirational #living #unhappiness #waiting #inspirational

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#trust #beauty

Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#gratitude #happiness #beauty

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#happiness #beauty

In the middle of a wheat field under a beautiful sunshine anybody can be happy; the important thing is to be happy in the middle of a storm under the darkest clouds! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in... ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #survival #death

When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last. ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#happiness #poetry #death

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #happiness #death

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy. ↗

— David Thewlis

#happiness #sadness #death

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#joy-of-life #joy-of-seeing #painting #life