Tag: happiness

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here,...

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness....

Singing in the rain. I’m singing in the rain. And it’s such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse?...

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life....

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you....

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain....

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly....

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher...

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat–that’s the only moral they know....

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy....