#happiness

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#attitude #awareness #happiness #opportunity #optimism

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mankind #nature

She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#existential #happiness #love #faith

Many people experience the travesty of regret in their end days; the realization that nothing held them back, that nothing was in their way, that there is no one to blame, only themselves. Don't just sit by waiting for your life to happen, make it happen! Don’t just hope your dreams will come alive, breathe life into them! Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret, take action today! At the end of the day, at the end of the year, at the end of your life, live in such a manner that you can hold your head up high, smile, and be proud of a life well lived. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blame #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational

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

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#fellow #give #greater #happiness #happy

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#connection #happiness #inspiration #love #religion

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#be happy #choice #choose #going #happiness

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#agreeable #another #arising #contemplating #misery

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#poetry #beauty