#happiness

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail. ↗

— George Alexiou

#achievement #chance #change #destiny #empowerment

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

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#life #life

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant. ↗

— Jean Webster

#happiness #life #live #past #regret

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#found #garner #happiness #leave #little

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. ↗

— Dan Savage

#i #necessarily #pursuing #same #sin

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. ↗

— Neil Simon

#brings #certain #certain point #happiness #just

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#story #tell #age

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#happiness #love #love

I feel as though I should say something profound, or enact some rite, or trade something to make it official. I want to transfer some trinket which would allow me to say that she's my girl, some kind of currency that proves to people that she likes me back. Something that would permit me to think about her all the time without feeling guilty or helpless or hopelessly far away. I guess I'm just so excited, I want to cage this thing like a tiny red bird so if can't fly away, so it stays the same, so it's still there the next time. For keeps, like a coin in your pocket. Like a peach pit from Mad Jack Lionel's tree. Like scribbled words in a locked suitcase. A bright balloon to tie to your bedpost. And you want to hug it close, hold it, but not so tight it bursts. ↗

— Craig Silvey

#happiness #jasper-jones #young-love #love