“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
Image: Kid Circus
“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
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. ”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Image: Hecha durante el II Triatlón de Benalmádena. – Quino Al
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller
Image: Luana – Guilherme Stecanella
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
