#happines

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#finishing #happiness #inspirational #success #inspirational

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#inspiration #inspirational

While I was yearning for happiness I became happy. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #inspirational

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. ↗

— André Maurois

#life #wisdom #life

Time creates Let time work at your projects. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#decision-inspirational #decision-making #fulfilling-life #happiness #projects

Don't underestimate the effects of complacency … cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose. ↗

— Erica Goros

#inspiration #keep-going #strive #inspirational

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided. - 12/7/2012 on his Facebook page ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#health #inspirational #peace #spirituality #values

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. ↗

— Helen Keller

#joy #purpose #intelligence

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#knowledge #intelligence

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education