Quotes by American Authors - Page 3241

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Ann Brashares
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Gordon B. Hinckley
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark Twain
I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.
David Henry Hwang
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
Sylvia Plath
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
Lauren Oliver
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
Stephen Chbosky
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Abraham Lincoln
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If my friend asks me to sit in a temple belonging to a God that I do not know, because he needs a friend to sit with him, I will be happy to sit there in the foreign temple. Because the temple itself is an outer container only. What is the true religion? What is the inner oil contained by that outer container? The inner oil is the friendship I share with my friend. The true religion is being there to sit beside my friend. If I cannot do this for my friend, then how am I worthy to sit in any temple, whether belonging to a God that I know or to a God that I don't know? If there is no inner oil within my soul, I do not deserve to sit in any temple. Religion is the friendship within the heart, not the place where we sit on a holy day. Religion is the oil within the lamp, not the metal container we see as the lamp.
C. JoyBell C.
Even the most noble of men are capable of committing the most heinous crimes when their souls cry out for help and that cry goes unanswered. If we spent half as much time building others up as we do tearing them down, we'd find the ladder of success is far greater than the rope of doom.
Michael Benningfield
Most will do what’s comfortable because, let’s face it, we all like guarantees. Working a draining 9-to-5 will guarantee that your rent is paid on time, it’ll guarantee that your loans will be taken care of, it’ll guarantee you three square meals every night of the week. What if you broke down an entire lifetime of guarantees and found that your most prized moments consisted of standard, fragmented memories; high school dances, learning how to drive a car, graduating college… It’s almost as if you stopped living life the moment your education ended, the moment it was time to ‘grow up’ and ‘get a real job.
Jayme Karales
We live a life of opposites. We want things we can’t have and have things we don’t want.
Raymond C. Nolan
The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.
Sharon Salzberg
The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.
Sharon Salzberg
My point, continued Rhy, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and I.
V.E. Schwab
It's time we allow our youth to de tangle life with ease.
Judith H Specht
For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.
Sharon Salzberg
Planning and perseverance will bring your mission to fruition.
Rob Liano
Healing starts the moment you accept the truth about what has happened. But healing doesn’t come quickly. When you know that death or pain has come, you face a moment when you stare that pain in the eyes and declare that you will not be defeated by it. Then you turn away and grieve." -Chris Pepple, Without a Voice
Chris Pepple
I don't play head games... I come from a family that could easily be called Generous to a fault.
Genereux Philip
You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.
Tim Tebow
It’s important to take God’s love personally, though it may not be an easy thing to do. Sure, God loves the world, but he also loves each one of us individually.
Tim Tebow
Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.
Sharon Salzberg
Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.
Sharon Salzberg
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
Sharon Salzberg
While ignorance might be bliss, apathy can be deadly.
Todd Stocker
Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
And while I may get hurt, disappointed, or frustrated […], my foundation doesn’t have to change.
Tim Tebow
Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.
Sharon Salzberg
I can feel myself getting happier as the days go on and it's the greatest feeling ever. Nothing is better than self improvement.
Genereux Philip
Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The great writers have to fight for their words. They have to choose to write, choose words over distractions, and their characters over their friends. Great writers can be lonely, exhausted souls. But through our characters, we live.
Alessandra Torre
Don’t let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.
Lolly Daskal
When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.
Lolly Daskal
The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.
Lolly Daskal
Don't ever let the Man get you.
Sophia Amoruso
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you everything else. It's up to you to be happy with what you have or not.
Neo Shamon
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
Mary Oliver
I've always said never let anyone tell you who you are. What I think I mean is never let anyone control how you feel about yourself.
Karla Diggs
I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple -- or a green field -- a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing -- an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness --wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak --to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed.
Mary Oliver
Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.
Lolly Daskal
Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.
Lolly Daskal
Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.
Lolly Daskal
Don’t set your own goals by what other people make important.
Lolly Daskal
What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.
Heather K. O'Hara
What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise man weeps at the sound of its soft singing.
Heather K. O'Hara
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.
Lolly Daskal
When your intuition is strong, follow it.
Lolly Daskal
Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.
Lolly Daskal
Becoming a great leader doesn’t mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.
Lolly Daskal
Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.
Lolly Daskal