#pines

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#jobs #money #sacrifices #life

Sometimes I feel like one of those sliding tile puzzles. I just get so dang close to what I want to see in the mirror and who I want to be... but then I have to completely jumble up the pieces to try to get even closer. ↗

— Erica Goros

#inspiration #introspection #life #self-help #self-improvement

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life. ↗

— George M. Adams

#organization #life

Move on. Be well. Go for it! ↗

— Sally Stubbs

#happiness-life #hypnotherapist #hypnotherapy #psychotherapist #resolve-problems

Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn’t what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does. ↗

— Laura C. Schlessinger

#life #life

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart. ↗

— Amit Ray

#science-of-happiness #secrets-of-happiness #life

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#starving-artist #suffering #writing #writing-process #life

I particularly like that last phrase," Mom said. "About protecting your own happiness. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#life

I had never in all my life felt so elated. Peter cared for me! It was a miracle I longed to celebrate - to tell all Hertfordshire - and I had to hold my hand to my mouth against an involuntary smile. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jane-austen #love #mary-bennet #peter-bushell #pride-and-prejudice

Want to make today a great day? Learn something new, reconnect with a light from your past, right a wrong, serve someone incapable of repaying you, smile at your own image and thank God for who you are and all that you have. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#life