#happines

The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#greed #happiness #life #money #power

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#ask #condition #felt #happiness #most

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#achievement #after #afterglow #best #come

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. ↗

— Deborah Day

#personal-growth #self-esteem #self-love #self-worth #love

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#happiness #happiness-positive-outlook #happy-life #positive-thinking #positive-thoughts

We need but little learning to live happily. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#learning #life #life

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#fear #growth #happiness #hate #honor

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#humor #sadness #funny

You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-positive #change-your-thoughts #failure #happiness #law-of-attraction

If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#happiness #happy #joy #joyful #attitude