Tagged: happiness
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” -Margaret Lee Runbeck
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” -Christopher McCandless, letter to Ron Franz
(Often attributed to Jon Krakauer in his book “Into the Wild”, based on the life of McCandless.)
“When life is sweet, say ‘thank you’ and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say ‘thank you’ and grow.” -Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhapy is where all crime starts. We must try to contriube joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” – Roger Ebert, Life Itself
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” – Rose Kennedy
“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” -Joseph Campbell
“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” -Mark Twain
“I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and the burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, he cancer of never letting go, is ignorant bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think , and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did my thinking ever bring me? If I think and think and think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness a million times, but never into it.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed,and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be the roots, in fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.” -Osho Rajneesh
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