#meaningful

Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the same as being happy--which I think is fleeting, dependent on circumstances...If the sun is shining, stand in it---yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass--they have to because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centered. What you are pursuing is meaning--- a meaningful life. There's the hap-- the fate, the draw that is yours, and it isn't fixed, but changing the course of the stream, or dealing new cards, whatever metaphor you want to use---that's going to take a lot of energy. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. The pursuit isn't all or nothing--- it's all AND nothing. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#pursuit-of-happiness #change

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#meaningful #sad #inspirational

Be forgiving and look forward to what's next, and not the past. ↗

— Emilia Furlo

#meaningful #optimistic #forgiveness

Daun yang jatuh take pernah membenci angin ↗

— Tere Liye

#meaningful #inspirational

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#exchanges #i #know #meaningful #most

Here you play in the street, little chicken. Some day an automobile will run over you; and if it kills you, that will be the best thing that can happen. It may only break your leg or your wing. Then all of your life you will drag along in misery. Life is too hard for you, little bird. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inspirational

I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling. ↗

— Niki Taylor

#especially #find #fulfilling #i #keep

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. ↗

— Halle Berry

#career #ever #get #i #meaningful