#pine

I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store. ↗

— Chris Pine for GQ Magazine

#gq #life-lessons #life

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally. ↗

— Deborah Day

#intent #intention #life #purpose-of-life #life

Because the truth is, as committed as I am to clearing my energy and only focusing on the good, positive things that I want, life is still life.It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#live-in-the-moment #life

It is not doing the thing we like, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life happy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#life

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #hate #life #people #success

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#happy #helping-others #joy #life #secret

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#applause #encores #had #happiness #i

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future. ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#future #going-forward #happiness #independance #moving-on

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#happiness #freedom

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#contemplation #freedom #happiness #leisure #freedom