Captivatingly simple yet applicable. #pursuitofhappiness
What are your thoughts?
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
It took awhile to get here but I think I’ve finally found the peace I needed.
The truth is, life is rarely exactly the way we want it to be, and other people often don’t act as we would like them to. Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against the principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.
by Richard Carlson
I’ve been fighting too many battles lately, time to subside and choose my matches more carefully. Life is too short, let’s just live.
Performers dance on a submerged stage during the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games on November 12, 2010.
Be sure to check out the collection, it’s absolutely breathtaking — by the scale of things, it will just leave you awe-struck. Simply put, it’s magnificent!
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
~Grey’s Anatomy
So do we risk it all in hope to gain something significant? Something worthwhile perhaps? Do we wait for the right moment or are there even ‘right’ moments? All I know is, — it’s always easier said than done.
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.
Nicholas Sparks
What if you come across a person who will do all the right things?
Everyone has a vision in their mind of a perfect place where people are kind and noble, where their dreams can be realized and their wishes fulfilled, where life is full of adventure and romance.
Truth is, it does happen; you just gotta find someone and let yourself fall under their spell. Give love a chance and with time, this illusion will comfort all desires. I leave you with a quote from Moulin Rouge! when Satine sang to herself:
“When will I begin to live again? One day I’ll fly away… leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.”
I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field—but I am sincere and my sincerity is my credentials.
Malcolm X, quoted in Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution
The essence of charisma is an overpowering emotion that communicates itself in your gestures, in your tone of voice, in subtle signs that are the more powerful for being unspoken. Malcolm X felt something more deeply than others, and no emotion is more powerful, particularly if it comes from deep rooted feelings of oppression.
In conclusion, my theory is: express what others are afraid to express and they will see great power in you. Say what they want to say but cannot.
