#happines

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 leak away your inner 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. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

The Darkness of the black night is commencing over the white wobbling flowers at the bay of the stream whose water is sparkling and is running down from those earthly mountains to surrender into your arms full of happiness and love.... It cherishes your existence and so do i do... ↗

— AashiQi

#happiness #love #nature #night #love

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#happiness #happy #inconsiderate #peace #problem

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#bear #grow #only #seeds #self-destruction

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#happiness #only #ourselves #purpose #squandering

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else. ↗

— Harry Lauder

#doubles #else #every #every time #few

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#bad girl #become #dead #girl #happiness

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#count #day #deed #dispense #every

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#beauty #because #character #discovered #happiness

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#freed #happy #only #soul #unhappiness