#happiness

Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#joy #experience

Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.” - Some Hope ↗

— Edward St. Aubyn

#life-lessons #experience

Your life isn't behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day - seize it! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #memories #seize-the-day #success #experience

By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #people #success

Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#happiness-life #inspiration #life-balance #self-improvement #self-worth

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness... ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#experience

If you fuel your journey on the enthusiasm of others, you are going to run out of gas. ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #success #wisdom

Do not give hope where there is none. Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some. ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #success #wisdom

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance. ↗

— Gabrielle Williams

#hard-times #inspiracional #experience