#pines

Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether. ↗

— Jed McKenna

#enlightenment #happiness #suffering #dreams

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#guilt #mistakes #passive-deathwish #regret #remorse

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires. ↗

— Roel van Sleeuwen

#desire #desires #desiring #dream #dreaming

Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #dreams

Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#dreams

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#individuality #intelligence #objectivism #schooling #students

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grateful #gratitude #happiness #life #mercy

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #honesty #lying #potential #self-deception

When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationships #right-one

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion. ↗