How to be ferociously happy and other essays Quotes

“The busier you are working on you, your life and your happiness, the less time you will have to dwell on another's success other than to celebrate it.”
― Dushka Zapata, How to be ferociously happy and other essays

“If you can create what you fear, you can create what you want.”
― Dushka Zapata, How to be ferociously happy and other essays

“if you do one thing at a time, you can take a break from everything else.”
― Dushka Zapata, How to be ferociously happy and other essays

“You cannot protect yourself from all the things that could hurt you. I can pretty much guarantee that you will be hurt again and again. But, you have had horrible break-ups and you survived. Which is a good indicator that you can trust yourself to make it through another one. So, thank your fear for trying his best to take care of you. Tell him you appreciate that he exists, but that he is only one of your many advisers, not your master. Show your fear, every time he shows up, who is boss. Tell your fear that he is welcome to tag along, but to keep his voice down to the faintest of whispers. Listen to that (by now) nearly inaudible whisper saying "Don't love again! We will get hurt!" and shout back "I LIKE HER A LOT! I WANT TO LIKE HER SOME MORE!" and then let your heart set the pace for how quickly you move into loving her. If the choice is fear or love, chose love. Make this choice again and again and again.”
― Dushka Zapata, How to be ferociously happy and other essays

“Instead, open your heart until you hear it crack.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“The next time you look up and wonder what the purpose of the stars is, know that this question connects you with the rest of the human race across centuries, and that your guess is as good as any. And maybe that is the purpose of the stars. To make us look up and fill us with wonder.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“My point is: our mistakes are our mark, our adventure, our flavor. They are the only way we ever learn anything; the only tool we have to design our life. Unless. Unless what we do is irreversible.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“Everyone is convinced that happiness lies on the other side of “figuring it out”. Instead, happiness is now.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“People say “don’t be sad”. I learned to give my feelings the space they needed. I don’t understand why we are so afraid of feelings. Happy is OK, but sad has to be “addressed”. It must “move on”. It calls for a “solution”. But sad is not a problem.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“Don’t listen to whoever said “never go to bed angry”. Seriously, go to bed. It will all look better in the morning.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“For a long time I believed that things happened for a reason until I witnessed my good friend’s car flip over on the highway like a matchbox. He was so young and our story was just starting and I never got to see how it would end. I learned that things happen because they happen.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays

“True happiness can coexist with other things and be just as true.”
― Dushka Zapata, How To Be Ferociously Happy: and other essays