#happiness

Want to make today a great day? Learn something new, reconnect with a light from your past, right a wrong, serve someone incapable of repaying you, smile at your own image and thank God for who you are and all that you have. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#life

A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#pessimism #phsychology #realism #social-sciences #life

Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many subjects repressed, refracted, blinded as to their true sexuality, because they are unwilling to let go of a stereotype. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#life #stereotypes #life

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness? ↗

— Maya Banks

#choices-and-consequences #consequences #life #unhappiness #life

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#acknowledgement #contentment #happiness #life #realization

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#happiness #heartbreak #love

As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

Never been more truthful then right now, looking at you fixes everything. ↗

— Holly Hood

#happiness #life #love #romance #life

put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God. ↗

— Hannah Whitall Smith

#life

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care... Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #lucky #misery #life