#joy

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#joy #life #life-lessons #living-life #life

A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#smile #life

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? ↗

— David Martin Lloyd-Jones

#joy #life #unhappiness #life

Life is like a rollercoaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride! ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#enjoy-life #life #life

When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubt #enjoy #life #life

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#because #doing #especially #experience #fun

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography. ↗

— Jesse Ball

#paths #life

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#enjoyment #life #living #life

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#joy #life #sadness #time #life

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#life #philosophical #life