#happy

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#happyness #morality #morals

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#either #emphasizes #happy #make #miserable

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#end #happy-endings #life #stories #dreams

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#good #happiness #happy #just #just be

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#believe #bucket-list #do-it #do-something #faith

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#happy #life

Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#love

Love is like a flower. Its upright when its in harmony and withered when its dead. ↗

— Dalia

#happy #love #sad #death

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#anyplace #be happy #chances #generate #happy

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!' ↗

— Samantha Barks

#alive #business #girl #go #go for it