#per

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#destination #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. ↗

— John Irving

#book #critics #done #dwell #feel

It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying. ↗

— James Patterson

#harrasment #little #mean #weak #experience

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#authors #crawling #like #now #performance

An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something. ↗

— Alec Issigonis

#someone #something #tells #who #why

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give. ↗

— LL Cool J

#art #cares #doing #give #heart

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#earn #emperor #enough #fake #japanese

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#changes #completely #enough #father #find

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

#college #college experience #degree #desire #exists

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#hurt #inspirational #life #relationships #sorry