#happiness

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#pride #pride

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. ↗

— Peter Deunov

#enlightenment #happiness #inner-peace #self-fulfillment #wisdom

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. ↗

— Joanne Harris

#happiness #joanne-harris #torture

Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of my life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationship #experience

If we counted our blessings instead of our money, we would all be rich ↗

— Linda Poindexter

#money

I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough. ↗

— Ruth Humleker

#enough #happiness #peace #change

Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#explore #happiness #life #opportunity #change

When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics. ↗

— Eljumar Alesna

#happiness #music #music

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect. ↗

— Maery Rubin

#self-respect #respect

One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense. If you were to inquire among journalists in either England or America whether they believed in the policy of the newspaper for which they worked, you would find, I believe, that only a small minority do so; the rest, for the sake of a livelihood, prostitute their skill to purposes which they believe to be harmful. Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever. I cannot condemn men who undertake work of this sort, since starvation is too serious an alternative, but I think that where it is possible to do work that is satisfactory to man’s constructive impulses without entirely starving, he will be well advised from the point of view of his own happiness if he chooses it in preference to work much more highly paid but not seeming to him worth doing on its own account. Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#self-respect #work #men