#happiness

and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. ↗

— William Bennett

#against #attention #avoid #business #call

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#contains #germ #growth #itself

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#capacity #choose #divine #either #greater

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. ↗

— John Burroughs

#chimney #discovered #discovered the secret #draws #either

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#consent #forgiven #generously #only #share

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#bored #could #die #find #had

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#applause #happiness #keeping #outside #person

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#doubtful #far #happiness #i #i think

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #brought #censure #god #happiness