#happiness

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. ↗

— Rosalia de Castro

#discover #dream #earth #exist #futile

It's an amazing experience when you focus on the positive things in your life. Things start to change. You become happier. You see things differently. There might still be negative things there, but like an airplane flying overhead, they become the background noise of your mind. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#happy #inspirational #positive #change

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#arrive #expect #happiness #never #plan

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool. ↗

— John Mason Good

#consists #happiness #pool #running #stagnant

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#confusion #grief #happiness #running

I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play "The Blue Bird," where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#blue-bird #happiness #home

To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I've never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there's been years where I've been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn't poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I've been in a place where you know you can't afford a better-quality food, where you can't do certain things because of money, and I'd prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost. This is terrible; you're asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is "Man, all I know is I don't want to be POOR. ↗

— Ryan North

#humor #money #food

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. ↗

— Neel Burton

#happiness #madness #mental-illness #modern-life #society

Cand cauti fericirea in lucruri materiale,acestea nu iti vor fi niciodata indeajuns. Priveste in jurul tau.Priveste in tine. ↗

— Nick Vujicic

#life-and-living #yourself #life

In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#happiness #life