#happiness

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. It is in this relationship that you set the standard for all others. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #powerful #relationship #standard #experience

Have you noticed how children never bypass a puddle of water, but jump, splash, and slosh right through it?  That's because they know an important truth - Life was meant to be lived.  Puddles were meant to be experienced. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#children #experience #happiness #inspirational #learning

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #life #motivational #move #paralysis

when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#family

Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira. ↗

— Tolstoï

#family #happiness #tolstoi #family

I live completely without regret. Sure there are plenty of things that someone could second guess, but I see the path of life like driving down the road without a map. The thing is, some dark alleys open up in majestic places, and some bright and shiny highways to the top end in cliffs to the bottom. You never know until you get there. What I know for sure is that if many years ago I actually had a map to the path of life, the destination that I would have chosen is right here, with this family, in this place, and with these smiles. That makes anything that could have been regretful, the best decision in the world. ↗

— Michael A. Wood Jr.

#life #meaning #regret #family

While it's true that, as Tolstoy observed, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and everyone on planet Earth, vale of tears that it is, is certainly entitled to the specificity of his or her suffering, one nonetheless likes to think that literature has the power to render comprehensible different kinds of unhappiness. If it can't do that, what's it good for? ↗

— Elif Batuman

#tolstoy #unhappiness #family

I know that whatever you decide, you’ll be happy, Summer, and that is the only thing I could ever wish. Whatever happens in the rest of this summer, whatever happens the rest of your life, it’s important that you are happy, and stay that way. – Aunt Sookie ↗

— Kailin Gow

#family #happiness #kailin-gow #life #loving-summer

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#happiness #human-nature #sadness #self-realization #freedom

Money doesn't bring you happiness, it brings you the freedom to find it. ↗

— H.G. Mewis

#h-g-mewis #happiness #money #freedom