#happiness

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#risk #risk

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#unhappiness #universe

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#balance

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #happiness #inspiration #life #motivation

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#giving #happiness #selfishness #selflessness #acting

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#compassion #happiness #helping-others #service #slavery

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#happiness #creation

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #harm-reduction #talking

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #pleasure

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#lasting #pleasure #temporary #pleasure