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If Your Willing To Take A Risk With Your Heart

My life has been a series of stories.

As you could imagine, as the one who is living in the story itself, things get pretty interesting at times. But they haven’t just been a collection of any type of stories. They have been page after page of some of the most meaningful, challenging, raw and truthful moments of my life.

They are stories that make me know I am alive…alive in a way I never could have dreamed of all those years ago when I felt cold and dead inside.

Stories that no matter their delivery, end up allowing my heart to bloom and continue to burn with a fearless love that ignites others as well.

Some enter into my life and see the story I am in now.

A few have been there since the story began.

The story wasn’t always bright and happy. In fact, for a great deal of the time it was very dark.

I learned things in that place.

I learned the value of things through their absence.

I learned how to love by being unloved.

I learned the importance of having passion when I was completely lost.

I learned my value…when I felt like I had none and that I wasn’t worth it.

But I think as time goes on, as I sit in these moments more often, I realize that I have understood one thing that never really seems to disappoint.

Let go of knowing.

Let go of knowing what’s going to happen. Let go of being attached to assumptions and expectations. Let go of thinking you know how something is going to turn out. Because the truth is, most of the time it goes in a completely different direction than you ever thought it would.

Time after time those moments have come and one throughout my life where I have only been in the moment as it arrived and had absolutely no idea where it came from.

But this goes far beyond just staying open to moments happening. It goes far beyond the idea that if you stay open to anything happening…anything could happen.

It’s about speaking your heart in those moments.

Let me tell you another story.

Once upon a time I was so locked up I couldn’t tell anyone anything that was going on with me nor did I want to. I was shut out by everyone and therefore I did the only thing I thought that could protect me – I built walls a mile high and pushed away anyone that got to close. I hurt people that way. I hurt myself that way.

Then, as time went on, all my walls started to fall down and I was left completely exposed. No one saw me for who I truly was but myself. But that was enough to know that I was lying to myself and trying to be someone I wasn’t. I knew that in time I was going to have to actually look myself in the mirror and create who I had see. No one was going to do it for me. I knew at the time I was completely full of it wearing a mask in all of its beautiful colors.

And as the years have gone on, and the facades have fallen away, I’ve come to understand that there’s nothin more important than leading with your heart.

There are thousands of reasons why something won’t work. You don’t need to spend a great deal of time searching for those to find them.

But there’s something special about the one, or few, reasons why it will work.

There’s something about having faith in the fact that no matter how complicated or tough a situation might be at that time, that the one reason you found will be enough and worth it to try. And even more, when that reason resonates with your heart, you have something you can put your love and trust behind.

Not many people trust their heart.

They believe that their heart was the thing that got them hurt badly.

But the truth is, it was the nasty tricks your mind played on you to convince you not to listen to your heart that got you hurt. The heart always knows what’s best. Time to leave. Time go stay. Time to dive in. Time to take a risk. It understands things that your mind could never even comprehend. It’s something to be trusted. It’s something to be adored.

For a long time, I felt like something was missing.

Maybe it was circumstance that created this, but ever so recently that feeling changed. I felt like I came home. I feel warm inside. And the truth is, I have no idea what’s going to happen. In my heart of hearts I know what I want. But I never know how it’s going to go. I can only keep looking up to the sky asking to be taken care of.

That’s faith that I never had before.

These stories of my life are perfect to me. Some are covered in tears. Some are flooded with laughs. But they have all landed me in a place where I can speak my heart no matter what the situation is and live with a love and passion that lights me up inside.

I didn’t know what to do with myself for a long time. I had tried just about everything, but as I have come to find out time after time, this heart of mine wants what it wants. There’s no telling it otherwise.

Not many people take risks with their heart. They don’t want to get hurt again. But the best thing about taking a risk with your heart is this…

It could be the greatest adventure of your life.

And to me, that’s worth it.

-Evan Sanders

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67 Perspective Building Quotes Of Life

67 Perspective Building Quotes Of Life

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” | Frank Zappa

“They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!” | Dr. Seuss

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” | Lao Tzu

“I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.” | Bill Watterson

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” | Kurt Vonnegut

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” | Sylvia Plath

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” | George Bernard Shaw

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” | Steve Maraboli

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” | Paulo Coelho

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” | Harvey Fierstein

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” | Friedrich Nietzsche

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” | Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them…to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.” | Horton Foote

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” | Marcus Aurelius

“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.” | Jarod Kintz

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” | Leo Tolstoy

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” | Steve Maraboli

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” | Gustave Flaubert

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.” | Harvey Pekar

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” | Oprah Winfrey

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.” | Judy Blume

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.” | Katharine Weber

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.” | Deb Caletti

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.” | John Burroughs

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” | Paulo Coelho

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.” | Cassandra Clare

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” | Elizabeth Gilbert

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” | Dalai Lama XIV

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” | Søren Kierkegaard

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” | Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” | Hayley Williams

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” | Helen Keller

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” | Ralph Ellison

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” | Anaïs Nin

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” | Confucius

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” | Tom Clancy

“The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.” | Kami Garcia

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.” | George Saunders

“I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.” | Nicholas Sparks

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out” | Oliver James

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” | Hunter S. Thompson

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” | John Keats

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” | Henry David Thoreau

“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” | Laura Ingalls Wilder

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” | Lemony Snicket

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” | Guillaume Apollinaire

“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” | Veronica Roth

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” | Sun Tzu

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” | Coco Chanel

“One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.” | Jarod Kintz

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.” | Henry Miller

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” | Chuck Palahniuk

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.” | Lauren Myracle

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” | Mary Manin Morrissey

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” | Randy Pausch

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” | Margaret Mitchell

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” | John Irving

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it.” | Charles M. Schulz

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” | Marie Curie

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.” | Paulo Coelho

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” | George R.R. Martin

“Don’t take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.” | Colleen Hoover

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” | Virginia Woolf

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” | Gautama Buddha

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52 Ambition Quotes To Make You Work Hard

52 Ambition Quotes To Make You Work Hard

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. | Mark Twain

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. | Salvador Dalí

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever. | E. Lockhart

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. | Criss Jami

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. | C.S. Lewis

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition. | Eoin Colfer

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone’s heart. | Colleen McCullough

Sometimes our highest goal becomes our big enemy when we move towards our goal blindly without focusing on the path we follow. | Durgesh Satpathy

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all. | Swami Vivekananda

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. | Jonathan Stroud

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. | Michael J. Fox

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. | Alain de Botton

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. | Roman Payne

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. | Niccolò Machiavelli

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. | Friedrich Nietzsche

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. | Theodore Roosevelt

Live for each second without hesitation. | Elton John

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia. | Jarod Kintz

Put work into your dreams. | Lesley D. Nurse

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment. | J.K. Rowling

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. | Timothy Leary

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. | L.M. Montgomery

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. | Johnny Depp

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. | Rabindranath Tagore

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. | Robert Frost

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman. | Audrey Hepburn

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. | Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn’t fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school’s graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn’t scare her. It made her feel alive. | Soman Chainani

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. | Alan Lightman

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. | Barack Obama

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. | Marcus Aurelius

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. | Elvis Presley

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. | Maya Angelou

My ambition was to live like music. | Mary Gaitskill

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. | Ralph Waldo Emerson

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. | Theodore Roosevelt

Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. | Johnny Depp

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. | Oscar Wilde

Your fantasies define you, so dream carefully. A man with no imagination is a man with no future in today’s world—and no past in tomorrow’s. | Jarod Kintz

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. | Helen Keller

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here. | Donald Trump

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. | Thomas Carlyle

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all. | Bob Marley

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust. Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust” | John Webster

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. | Robert G. Ingersoll

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it’s impossible to satisfy them or achieve them. | Luigi Pirandello

I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless. | Neal Shusterman

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. | Salvador Dalí

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. | Napoléon Bonaparte

Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies. | Israelmore Ayivor

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44 Smile Wide Quote About Happiness

44 Smile Wide Quote About Happiness

We are all looking for happiness? But how do we really find it? Do we just let it show up or is there something we can do to bring it into our lives? Check out these quote about happiness for some great perspective!

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins–of happiness and unhappiness. | Virginia Woolf

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. | Charles Dickens

We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within. | Alexandra Elle

Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden. | Mary Engelbreit

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. | Socrates

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. | Alexandre Dumas

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. | Marie Rutkoski

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. | Oprah Winfrey

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. | Ray Bradbury

We are all happy if we but knew it. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. | Dalai Lama XIV

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others. | Ayad Akhtar

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. | Max Planck

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. | Albert Camus

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. | Bertrand Russell

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing. | Andy Warhol

If you write it down, you can make it happen. | Staness Jonekos

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched. | Albert Camus

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go. | Allison Winn Scotch

The strength of a man isn’t seen in the power of his arms. It’s seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. | Steve Maraboli

Love is the energy of life. | Robert Browning

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious. | Will Rogers

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success. | Dale Carnegie

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn’t it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away. | Nenia Campbell

Your success and happiness lie in you. | Helen Keller

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. | Ramana Maharshi

Suffering teaches joy. | Sonia Rumzi

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

 

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, –will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, –or to diminish something of their pains. | Jeremy Bentham

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. | Franklin D. Roosevelt

Money can’t buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever. | Besa Kosova

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart. | Amit Ray

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do. | J.M. Coetzee

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves. | Victor Hugo

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. | Jacqueline Carey

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy. | Augustine Birrell

You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. | Steve Maraboli

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. | Dean Koontz

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear. | Taylor Swift

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. | Dale Carnegie

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. | Nelson Mandela

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. | Margaret Lee Runbeck

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. | Ingrid Bergman

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46 Timely, Powerful And Short Life Quotes

46 Timely, Powerful And Short Life Quotes

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.” | Harvey Pekar

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” | Francis Bacon

“I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.” | Mae West

“sometimes you don’t need a goal in life, you don’t need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you’re going to do next!” | Sophie Kinsella

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” |Paulo Coelho

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.” | Judy Blume

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.” | Cassandra Clare

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” | Elizabeth Gilbert

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.” | Katharine Weber

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” | Hayley Williams

“When you meet the one who changes the way your heart beats, dance with them to that rhythm for as long as the song lasts.” | Kirk Diedrich

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” | Steve Maraboli

“Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out” | Oliver James

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” | Wayne W. Dyer

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” | Hunter S. Thompson

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” | Mahatma Gandhi

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” | Guillaume Apollinaire

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” | Ernest Hemingway

“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” | Laura Ingalls Wilder

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” | Coco Chanel

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” | Thomas Keneally

“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder” | Stephenie Meyer

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.” | Henry Miller

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.” | Lauren Myracle

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” | Margaret Mitchell

“The greatness of a man is now in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him.” | Bob Marley

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” | Randy Pausch

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” | Henry David Thoreau

“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.” | Deb Caletti

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.” | Saul Bellow, Herzog

“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” | Dale Carnegie

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” | Virginia Woolf

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” | Oprah Winfrey

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.” | H.P. Lovecraft

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” | J.K. Rowling

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” | Antonio Porchia

“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” | Nicole Sobon

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” | Woody Allen

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” | Ruth Reichl

“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” | Neil Gaiman

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.” | Brian Tracy

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” | Henry Rollins

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.” | Paulo Coelho

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” | Henry Miller

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” | Isaac Asimov

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” | Coco Chanel

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52 Faith Building Quotes On Hope

52 Faith Building Quotes On Hope

Hope is one of the most powerful things there is out there. Hope can help you get through anything no matter how trying the times may be. So when you are going through the thick of it, you can either fall to pieces in depending purely upon yourself or gather all of the faith and hope you have in life and move forward no matter what. Dive into these quotes on hope for some great inspiring messages.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. | Robert Fulghum

People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. | Neil Gaiman

In a time of destruction, create something. | Maxine Hong Kingston

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. | José N. Harris

I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. | F. Scott Fitzgerald

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily. | Lemony Snicket

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. | Charles Dickens

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. | Pittacus Lore

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. | Alexander Pope

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. | David Nicholls

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | George Washington Burnap

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. | Dean Koontz

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. | Paulo Coelho

Hope is a waking dream. | Aristotle

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. | Laini Taylor

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. | Anne Frank

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. | William Faulkner

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. | Barack Obama

All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope. | Alexandre Dumas

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. | Albert Einstein

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. | Martin Luther King Jr.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. | Marion Zimmer Bradley

I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. | Stephenie Meyer

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. | Michael Jackson

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. | Anne Lamott

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. | Audrey Hepburn

I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. | Lady Gaga

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. | Epicurus

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. | John Lennon

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. | F. Scott Fitzgerald

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars. | Cecelia Ahern

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. | Nelson Mandela

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. | Neil Gaiman

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. | Rumi

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. | Stephen King

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. | Maya Angelou

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. | Paulo Coelho

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required. | Winston S. Churchill

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. | John Green

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. | Maya Angelou

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever. | Nicholas Sparks

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. | Martin Luther King Jr.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone. | Taylor Swift

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. | Seneca

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. | J.R.R. Tolkien

Here’s another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you’re dead, it’s the only thing that keeps you alive. | Lauren Oliver

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. | Theodore Roosevelt

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. | Arthur Golden

 

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. | Anne Frank

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. | Charles Dickens

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways–either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. | Dalai Lama XIV

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. | T.S. Eliot

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37 Quotes About Fear And Getting Through It

37 Quotes About Fear And Getting Through It

Fear can grip you. Own you. Paralyze you.

If you let it. It takes a lot to be able to move forward with your life when you’re living in fear. It can make you doubt everything you believe in and stop you from moving forward. But if you settle your nerves and find the courage that is within you, you can do amazing things. Dive into these 37 awesome quotes about fear so you can get through any obstacle that confronts you.

Do one thing every day that scares you. | Eleanor Roosevelt

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. | Salvador Dalí

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. | Plato

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. | Franz Kafka

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity. | Paulo Coelho

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. | Jim Morrison

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. | Marcus Aurelius

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. | Sigmund Freud

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. | Nelson Mandela

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. | Dan Brown

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. | Francis Chan

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. | Veronica Roth

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. | Woody Allen

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. | J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. | Marie Curie

Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination. | Cornelia Funke

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without fear there cannot be courage. | Christopher Paolini

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. | Aristotle

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t. | Lemony Snicket

Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. | Chuck Palahniuk

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. | Joseph Campbell

In time we hate that which we often fear. | William Shakespeare

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. | Audre Lorde

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. | Laurell K. Hamilton

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. | Bruce Lee

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. I went into the room and shot my fear in the face. | Lady Gaga

Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual. | Alfred Hitchcock

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. | Paulo Coelho

Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him. | George R.R. Martin

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. | Erica Jong

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. | John Steinbeck

You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. | Michelle Obama

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. | John Lennon

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it. | Pittacus Lore

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. | François de La Rochefoucauld

Courage is knowing what not to fear. | Plato

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100 Perfect Quotes About Being Happy

100 Perfect Quotes About Being Happy

Happiness is one of the most important things in life. However, it seems like we are all chasing it, and like any other emotion, it’s something that you can’t grasp onto. The harder we try the less we become.

Dive into these great quotes about being happy to give you some serious perspective on what it means to lead a happy life. Maybe they will help you slow down!

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” | James Dean

“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” | Alan Cohen

“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” | Peter Hagerty

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” | Maya Angelou

“We forge the chains we wear in life.” | Charles Dickens

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” | Lao Tzu

“Everything is a gift of the universe–even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.” | Ken Keyes Jr.

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” | Andrew Carnegie

“Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” | Chinese Proverb

“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” | Stephen Covey

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” | Denis Waitley

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” | Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” | Greg Anderson

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” | Buddha

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.” | Anne Frank

“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” | Buddha

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” | Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

“You never regret being kind.” | Nicole Shepherd

“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” | Helen Keller

“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” | Dan Millman

“Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” | Charles Dickens

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” | Dalai Lama

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” | Helen Keller

“True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” | Joseph Addison

“Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” | William Adams

“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.” | Lester Levinson

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” | Winston Churchill

“Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.” | Sam Rosen

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” | Frank Tyger

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” | Carl Jung

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” | Reinhold Niebuhr

“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.” | Abraham Lincoln

“There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them.” | Dr. Wayne Dyer

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” | Deepak Chopra

“Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.” | Willie Hill

“Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.” | Shakti Gawain

“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.” | Nathaniel Branden

“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” | Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.” | Marcus Aurelius

“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” | J. Petit Senn

“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.” | Alan Cohen

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” | John Milton

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” | James Oppenheim

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” | Lucille Ball

“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” | Albert Clarke

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” | Betty Smith

“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” | Oprah Winfrey

“View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t?” | Victor Frankl

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” | Marcus Aurelius

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs–even though checkered by failure–than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” | Theodore Roosevelt

“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time…serenity, that nothing is.” | Thomas Szasz

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” | Dr. Seuss

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” | Epicurus

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” | James Oppenheim

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” | Benjamin Disraeli

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” | Helen Keller

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” | Robert Anthony

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.” | J.D. Salinger

“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means | either may do | the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.” | Benjamin Franklin

“If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.” | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” | Albert Schweitzer

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” | Barbara DeAngelis

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” | W.P. Kinsella

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” | Mark Twain

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” | Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.” | Tom Brady

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” | St. Augustine

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” | Robert Louis Stevenson2

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” | Edith Wharton

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” | Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” | Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” | Aristotle

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” | Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is a state of activity.” | Aristotle

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” | Franklin Roosevelt

“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.” | Unknown

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” | Immanuel Kant

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” | Mother Teresa

“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” | Chinese Proverb

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” | Mahatma Gandhi

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” | Dale Carnegie

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” | Buddha

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” | Jim Rohn

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” | Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” | Robert A. Heinlein

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” | Herman Cain

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” | Confucius

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” | Aristotle

“Happiness is acceptance.” | Unknown

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” | Bertrand Russell

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” | Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” | Friedrich Schiller

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” | Douglas Adams

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” | Andy Rooney

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” | Martha Washington

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” | Albert Schweitzer

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” | Herman Hesse

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” | Henry David Thoreau

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95 Happy Life Quotes To Make You Smile

95 Happy Life Quotes To Make You Smile

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” | Carl Jung

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” | Marcus Aurelius

“Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.” | Gretchen Rubin

“I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” | Isabel Allende

“We need to be our own guide. We can live a much more peaceful and happy life if we think about positive growth of ourselves and others, and its effects on the universe.” | Hina Hashmi

“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.” | Paul Bloom

“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.” | Charles M. Schwab

“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.” | Mandy Hale

“Gratitude is the key to opening all doors.” | Lailah Gifty Akita

“The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.” | Richelle E. Goodrich

“Lord, I thank you for answering my prayers at the right time.” | Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be somebody who makes everybody feel like somebody.” | Unknown

“Be patient with the faults of others. Forgive quickly to have a happy soul and life.” | Lailah Gifty Akita

“You deserved to be loved, wait for your soulmate. Be joyful and happy together.” | Lailah Gifty Akita

“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” | Anne Sweeney

“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.” | Henry David Thoreau

“You have the grace for happy life.” | Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you start each day happy and treat people with more kindness, it determines the way you live your day. It’s all about your choices!” | Wesam Fawzi

“When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.” | Diana Rose Morcilla

“Design a life! Don’t maintain it.” | Shannon L. Alder

“Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job, but with you.” | Mandy Hale

“Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive?” | Mandy Hale

“If you aren’t happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.” | Maddy Malhotra

“The happiest, healthiest, and longest lasting relationships happen when each partner is secure and whole within themselves.” | Pamela Cummins

“Be Original. Follow your dreams. The worst possible thing for you to do in life is give up what makes you happy.” | Love The Stacks Bookstore

“After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.” | Gopichand Lagadapati

“Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.” | Richelle E. Goodrich

“Just be happy. And if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.” | Esther Earl

“The whole world may tell you how beautiful you are but there is that one person whose compliment will make you feel like a million bucks!” | Lorato Mosimakoko

“A relationship will either make the majority of your life happy or miserable. It is important to take your time and make sure that it is a wise choice before making a commitment.” | Pamela Cummins

“Happiness Is With You And Happiness Is Ahead, Just Keep Walking Along….” | Muhammad Imran Hasan

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” | Dr. Seuss

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” | Robert A. Heinlein

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” | Abraham Lincoln

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” | Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” | Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” | Dalai Lama XIV

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” | Albert Camus

“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” | Stephen Chbosky

“Forget yesterday. it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow. You haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes, and your heart to a truly precious gift; today.” | Unknown

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” | Audrey Hepburn

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” | Charles M. Schulz

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” | John Lennon

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” | Jonathan Safran Foer

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” | Tom Bodett

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” | Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” | Dale Carnegie

“How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.” | Wayne Dyer

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” | Chuck Palahniuk

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” | Marcel Proust

“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.” | Lauren Oliver

“The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.” | Fabienne Fredrickson

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” | Bertrand Russell

“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” | Paul Simon

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” | W.P. Kinsella

“I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.” | David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” | L.M. Montgomery

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” | Anne Frank

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” | Sylvia Plath

“All happiness depends on courage and work.” | Honoré de Balzac

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” | Mark Twain

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” | J.M. Barrie

“It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” | Haruki Murakami

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” | Jonathan Safran Foer

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” | Mother Teresa

“Life is short. Eat dessert first.” | Jacques Torres

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” | Steve Maraboli

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” | Rita Mae Brown

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” | Jane Austen

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” | Friedrich Nietzsche

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” | Aristotle

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” | Guillaume Apollinaire

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” | Robert Frost

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” | Douglas Adams

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” | Steve Maraboli

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” | Marcus Aurelius

“Maybe the truth is, there’s a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.” | Ann Brashares

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” | Aristotle

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” | Martin Luther King Jr.

“Ester asked why people are sad. “That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.” | Paulo Coelho

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human – in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” | C. JoyBell C.

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” | Carrie Jones, Need

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” | William Shakespeare

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.” | Aldous Huxley

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.” | Jodi Picoult

“I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” | Elizabeth Gilbert

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” | G.K. Chesterton

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” | Leo Tolstoy

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.” | Rainbow Rowell

“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.” | Marianne Williamson

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” | Martha Washington

“Act without expectation.” | Lao Tzu

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51 People Change Quotes For Fluid Times

51 People Change Quotes For Fluid Times

Things change. People change. There’s nothing guaranteed about this life except for the fact that things are always going to change. You can’t stop it. The point is, why would you even want to?

One of the most amazing things about life is that nothing is permanent. There’s nothing that isn’t susceptible to the ever shifting landscape of life. So dive into these people change quotes for some serious perspective on relationships and life.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. | Maya Angelou

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. | Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime. | Khaled Hosseini

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. | Andy Warhol

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. | R. Buckminster Fuller

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. | Albert Einstein

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn’t. | Becca Fitzpatrick

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. | Soren Kierkegaard

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude. | Eleanor Roosevelt

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. | Margaret Mead

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. | Barack Obama

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything. | Stephen Richards

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. | Joan Didion

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. | Stephen King

Change, like healing, takes time. | Veronica Roth

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. | Neil Gaiman

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. | Lao Tzu

People do not change, they are merely revealed. | Anne Enright

I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world. | Tupac Shakur

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. | Oscar Wilde

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. | Plutarch

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. | Paulo Coelho

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. | James Baldwin

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. | Andy Warhol

You know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. | Lemony Snicket

Meaning and morality of One’s life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky. | Friedrich Nietzsche

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. | Maya Angelou

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. | C. JoyBell C.

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. | Walter Mosley

Well, that’s your opinion, isn’t it? And I’m not about to waste my time trying to change it. | Lady Gaga

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. | Anne Rice

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. | Steve Maraboli

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude. | Amy Tan

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads – at least that’s where I imagine it – there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library. | Haruki Murakami

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. | Flannery O’Connor

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. | William H. Gass

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. | Czesław Miłosz

The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. | Laura Ingalls Wilder

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. | William Faulkner

Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself! | Mark A. Cooper

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. | Mother Teresa

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. | Randy Pausch

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. | Nelson Mandela

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me. | Taylor Swift

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. | Viktor E. Frankl

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. | Harriet Tubman

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