Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and a quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.
Pablo Cohello
A Buddhist scholar I know once explained to me that Westerners mistakenly think that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you and you have only bliss to look forward to. But he said that would not be nirvana, because your bliss in the present would always be shadowed by the joy from the past. Nirvana, he said, is what you arrive at when you have only bliss to look forward to and find in what looked like sorrows the seedlings of your joy.
Andrew Solomon
/robin
Happiness starts with you. Not with you relationships, not with your job, not with your money, but with you.
/phil
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
/phil
Life is too short to be lived badly
Marjane Satrapi
/phil
Make the absolute best of your time that you can.
That means moving ever-forward towards your ideal lifestyle, and being happy now, not just later.
Colin Wright
/phil
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
/phil
Don’t texg or tweet during the show. Just live your life. Don’t keep telling people what you’re doing…
And it lights up your big dumb face.
Louis C.K.
/phil
Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
/phil
I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Mark Twain
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