#pines

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #past #quote #life

Learn from what's behind you but look forward to what's ahead. It would be a sad, sad existence if you believed your best had already come and gone. Believe instead the truth...that the best is yet to be because that part's up to you. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#attitude

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#choose #choose love #composed #forces #freud

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#being #comes #continue #doing #fact

A good education is another name for happiness. ↗

— Ann Plato

#education #good #good education #happiness #name

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") ↗

— Gertrude Atherton

#life #sadness #life

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #love

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance. ↗

— Osho

#life #sadness #life