#happiness

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future. ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#future #going-forward #happiness #independance #moving-on

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#happiness #freedom

It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. ↗

— Haim Shapira

#happiness #wisdom #funny

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now! ↗

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

#humor #humor

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#human-condition #imagination

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #power #imagination

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#hope #love #imagination

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #desire #happiness #materialism #possessions

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? ↗

— Alan Moore

#happiness #pessimism #imagination

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#inspirational #inspirational