#happiness

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #reality #reality

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. ↗

— Suze Orman

#find #goal #happiness #happy #joy

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. ↗

— Patti Page

#i #i can #joy #love #pathos

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. ↗

— Anna Pavlova

#away #brief #brief moment #butterfly #child

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#choose #choose love #composed #forces #freud

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") ↗

— Gertrude Atherton

#life #sadness #life

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#deceased #happiness #life #life-lessons #living

The truth of living is proved not by the inevitability of death but by the wonder that we lived at all. Remembering lives from the past ratifies that truth, more and more so the older we get. When I was growing up, my father told me once, "Do by look for happiness; life itself is happiness." It took me years to understand what he meant. The value of a life lived; the sheer value of living. ↗

— Nina Sankovitch

#happiness #life #life-lessons #death

You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-positive #change-your-thoughts #failure #happiness #law-of-attraction