#happiness

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. ↗

— Donna Rice

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Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest, most swollen and logic shattering happiness I've ever experienced. One moment would be a wall of happiness so tall it could not be scaled; the next felt like falling into a pit of sadness that had no bottom. I realized you could not have one without the other, that this great capacity to love and be happy can be experienced only with this great risk of having happiness taken from you - to tremble, always, on the edge of loss. ↗

— Emily Rapp

#happiness #loss #death

There is no love; there are only proofs of love. ↗

— Pierre Reverdy

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Are you mad?” She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her. “What do you think?” I clip. “That you’re going to save me.” She says quietly. ↗

— K. Larsen

#happiness #love #love

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#misery #money #money

What good is money if it can't buy happiness? ↗

— Agatha Christie

#money #wealth #money

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. “…What’s real is something that not even the strength of the Goddess can change. The only one who can change it is me. If I don’t change my destiny, if I don’t cut through the obstacles in my path, then no matter where I go, I’ll always be standing in the same place, doing the same thing over and over again, for the rest of my life. ↗

— Miyuki Miyabe

#happiness #inspirational #sadness #change

Let today be the day you are no longer intimidated by the monumental size of the change you want, but instead be empowered by your ability to make that change one step at a time. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #empowered #happiness #inspirational #life

He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

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