#ness

The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#happiness #inspirational #personal-growth #satisfaction #inspirational

The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit human thought. That writers are overrated fools. That all religions come from ancient comic writers. And the ultimate goal of comics is same as the purpose of humanity – to break free from language. ↗

— Manu Joseph

#happiness #humanity-and-society #language #religion #unfortunate

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#love #marriage #possessiveness #love

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#rudeness #marriage

Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#singleness #marriage

I believe in roses. Oh God, yes! I do believe in roses! And I believe in lots and lots and lots of them, too! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#happiness #inspirational-quotes #roses #inspirational

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit

Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#sobriety #love

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#patriarchy #wilderness #women #men

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity