#happiness

Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry. No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn't want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back. ↗

— Amy Meredith

#girl-problems #happiness #longing #love #wistful

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy ↗

— John Irving

#happiness #woman #women #men

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#unhappiness #men

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. ↗

— P.D. James

#love #protection #responsibility #self-sufficiency #solitude

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#happiness #happy #joy #pain #relief

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave. ↗

— G.A. Henty

#men #respect #slave #men

Why do women get more hurt than men? Because men use their brain whereas women use their heart to make a decision. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#happiness #human #smile #men

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive? ↗

— Mandy Hale

#happiness #happy-life #love #loving-yourself #positive-thinking

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