“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Image: Hey – Quinten de Graaf
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anais Nin
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Image: Greg Rakozy
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
– Joseph Campbell
Image: Simply happiness – S&B Vonlanthen
“I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful.”
― Brooke Hampton
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
— Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
Image: city of joy – Loren Joseph
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Image: Ben White
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
