#sm

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#pessimism #unhappiness #life

I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin. ↗

— Jerry Newport

#life

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#humanism #life

Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, "We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!" I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. ↗

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#life

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#best way #fight #racism #solidarity #way

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#important #killed #kills #life #lost

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#life

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves. ↗

— Frank Warren

#secrets #spiritualism #life

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#life #misery #weakness #life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-reliance #self-trust #life