#pine

She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasn’t. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#happiness #inspirational-quotes #life-changing #change

Sometimes the best gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their happiness. ↗

— S. K. Nicholls

#happiness #freedom

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail. ↗

— George Alexiou

#achievement #chance #change #destiny #empowerment

The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#greed #happiness #life #money #power

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life? ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#life #life

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant. ↗

— Jean Webster

#happiness #life #live #past #regret

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#ask #condition #felt #happiness #most

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#achievement #after #afterglow #best #come

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. ↗

— Deborah Day

#personal-growth #self-esteem #self-love #self-worth #love

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#indispensable #part #some #things #want