#jo

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brighter #fighting #fighting-battles #greater #greater-glory

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#inspirational #joyful #uplifting #inspirational

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#joy #thankfulness #thanksgiving #inspirational

Life is a journey worth making. ↗

— Pandora Gray

#inspirational #joy #life #love #success

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your live. ↗

— Confucius

#jobs #life-and-living #inspirational

What is done cannot be undone, Knowing that, face it but do not run. ↗

— Rupansh Gupta

#inspirational #rupansh-gupta #the-sojourn #inspirational

Joys are like stray cats...the more you feed them...the more you get! ~Bertha ↗

— Jane Carroll

#joy #joy-of-life #inspirational

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were. ↗

— Richard Yates

#self #true-to-self #truth #intelligence

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend. ↗

— Criss Jami

#clever #comprehend #comprehension #content #contentment

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#intelligence #labor #labor-activism #manual-labor #intelligence