Happiness Quotes - A smile puts you on the right track

Happiness Quotes - A smile puts you on the right track

“A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

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

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

― William James

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

― Edgar Allan Poe

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”

― Drew Barrymore

“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, Nineteen Minutes

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

― Louisa May Alcott

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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

― Marianne Williamson

“Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”

― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.”

― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”

― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”

― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

Addiction Quotes - We don't have a mobile phone. The mobile phone has us

Addiction Quotes - We don't have a mobile phone. The mobile phone has us “Why do large observational studies such as that of Fiorentine and Moos seem to suggest that AA is effective, while smaller controlled studies like those of the Brandsma, Walsh, and others included in the Cochrane Review do not? The likely explanation is simple: people stay in AA if they’re getting better and leave if they aren’t. This is understandable. If you are able to stop drinking, then continuing to attend AA is a comfortable and affirming choice. If you struggle with drinking and can’t make use of the AA approach, then you are less likely to keep attending. Over the long term, the people who remain in AA are, by definition, the success stories. But they represent a very small slice of the people who start there; as we will see shortly, the dropout rate from AA is extremely high. These facts—that AA works for the diehards and fails for the dropouts—are perennially misunderstood by the press a...

Girls Quotes - Girlfriend is injurious to health

Girls Quotes - Girlfriend is injurious to health “Herbenick invited me to sit in on the Human Sexuality class she was about to teach, one of the most popular courses on Indiana’s campus. She was, on that day, delivering a lecture on gender disparities in sexual satisfaction. More than one hundred fifty students were already seated in the classroom when we arrived, nearly all of them female, most dressed in sweats, their hair pulled into haphazard ponytails. They listened raptly as Herbenick explained the vastly different language young men and young women use when describing “good sex.” “Men are more likely to talk about pleasure, about orgasm,” Herbenick said. “Women talk more about absence of pain. Thirty percent of female college students say they experience pain during their sexual encounters as opposed to five percent of men.” The rates of pain among women, she added, shoot up to 70 percent when anal sex is included. Until recently, anal sex was a relativ...

Anxiety Quotes - It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us

Anxiety Quotes - It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us “I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre “In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods “I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, bu...

Girls Quotes - A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy

Girls Quotes - A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy “How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.” ― Emma Cline “It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea. It's all down to girls, one way or another.” ― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance “Speaking of my things, you weren't actually using that darling little study were you?" she asked sweetly. Her mate's eyes narrowed. "Why?" "Because I am commandeering it for my closet." "Closet? My study...

Books Quotes - It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids

Books Quotes - It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids “There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart “Remember, the past need not become our future as well.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris “It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weig...

Adolescence Quotes - Adolescence is an inside job

Adolescence Quotes - Adolescence is an inside job “I don’t even pretend to understand it all. I was president of the Luther League, the youth group of our church. I was a good kid and a bad kid at the same time. I was looking for a very nice girl but also a very bad girl. Do all young men have these conflicts? And, what about whores? Well, in my mind, prostitutes are bad girls. Matter of fact, they are professional bad girls. As I said earlier in this diary, you don’t make love to whores, you fuck them. There’s a difference. They don’t require love and courtship, all they want is my money. I go to the bedroom with them and do the deed with no affection. They take my money and leave. All my life I have been told that girls who have sex outside of marriage are bad girls... sluts. I’ve also been told by my dad, “Son, sex is the most beautiful expression of love in a marriage.” Although I can appreciate the difference, that being, sex is meant for marriage only; m...

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