#happy

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives? ↗

— David Suzuki

#children #grandchildren #happy #healthy #live

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#dead #happy #only #peace #smiled

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #anyhow #battling #because #getting

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. ↗

— Chris Barber

#extroverted #happy #jazz #much #music

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#circumstances #correlation #happy #how #little

when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back. ↗

— Brittany Perloff

#dreaming #dreams #goals #happy #inspirational

Let stuff simply unfold, for once in your life, without spinning all those hopeful romantic fantasies. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you’ll have to actually live — no evers or afters required. ↗

— Abby McDonald

#fantasies #happy-ever-after #life #love #reality

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#happy #life #superstitious #tempting-fate #wrong

Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#happy-endings #film