#ness

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#happiness #jealousy #learning #life #jealousy

I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy. ↗

— Kelly Epperson

#life #philosophy #life

I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay. ↗

— Carmen Ambrosio

#illness #inspirational #ms #multiple-sclerosis #inspirational

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#kindness #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sympathy #life

Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#life #love #smile #life

I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was ever a time in my life when I had the right to feel alone this was it. But I lost that sense of loneliness. I felt like there was a force in the room with me, not a person, but I had a sense that there was another world, another dimension, and it would be looking after me. It was like, "This isn't the only world, this is just one aspect of the whole thing, don't imagine this is all there is. ↗

— John Marsden

#god #loneliness #spirituality #imagination

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#bartolome-de-medina #contemplation #happiness #st-thomas #life

The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#music #pop #romance #sadness #life

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#future #happiness #life #past #present

We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #money #power #success #worthiness