#pines

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#gratitude #happiness #joy #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Happiness is beautiful. You should really feel it more often. ↗

— Geeta Masurekar

#happiness #beauty

Which scenario would be better to wake up from, a beautiful dream or a nightmare? For me, there is nothing more refreshing than to wake up from a nightmare and realize it wasn't real. Conversely, there is nothing more depressing than to wake up from a beautiful dream and realize it wasn't real. ↗

— John Smolak

#happiness #sadness #beauty

Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#life-and-living #life-lessons #positive-life #positive-thinking #think-pink

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. ↗

— Thomas L. Masson

#business

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy. ↗

— Daniel Clausen

#consequences #decisions #happiness #problems #sadness

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#happiness #change

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #personal-responsibility #potential #power

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#wisdom #change

During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense, optimistic engagement with the world around us. We feel fully alive, full of potential and purpose--in other words, we are completely activated as human beings. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#games #happiness #human-potential #change