- “Everything is unknown before you start knowing it.” ― Ansh – The Mystic Rider
- “Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. “And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you’ve been since the day I met you.” Finally, he put “beautiful” at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared.“Sweet talker,” I scoffed. “You didn’t know anything about me the first time we met.”“I knew you were beautiful,” he said. “I just hoped for the rest.” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
- “[Robert’s eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll’s grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.Dear Friends: I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he would do for me.The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood’s morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling toward the west.He had not passed on life’s highway the stone that marks the highest point; but, being weary for a moment, he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.Yet, after all, it may be best, just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar above a sunken ship. For whether in mid sea or ‘mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights, and left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the golden dawning, of the grander day.He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form, and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, the poor, and wronged, and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart and with the purest hands he faithfully discharged all public trusts.He was a worshipper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: ‘For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer!’ He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers.Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, ‘I am better now.’ Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead.And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust.Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no gentler, stronger, manlier man.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
- “You are in charge of your own happiness; you don’t need to wait for other people’s permission to be happy.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “The ultimate purpose of human life is to be free from the bondage of karma despite performing his duty.” ― Shiva Negi
- “Disaster on an unfathomable scale is always taking place on Earth. Countless instances of extreme suffering are occurring in this moment — right now. Yet because this suffering is so normal and ordinary, simply occurring every day, distributed rather evenly over time and space, it seems less evocative and urgent than the more unusual, more localized disasters, such as school shootings and earthquakes. Almost all the suffering that occurs on Earth can be considered baseline horror, which allows us to ignore it. We simply do not feel the ever-present emergency that surrounds us.” ― Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
- “When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.” ― Dee Remy, There Once Was A Boy
- “It is Life’s nature to, at some point, hang you at the edge of a precipice. You will find the darkness suffocating and the pain unbearable. What do you do, when you don’t know what to do? Well, in such times, think deeply about two aspects that you don’t normally consider: 1. Your Life is a gift that has been given to you without your even asking for it. 2. There are many who don’t have what you always take for granted. So, don’t complain. Be grateful. And watch how gratitude soaks your Life in abundance!” ― AVIS Viswanathan
- “What determines each person’s state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.” ― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
- “I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” ― Audrey Hepburn
- “There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
- Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. William Feather
- “A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?” ― Matthieu Ricard
- “You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.” ― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
- “Death only exists for the personality and not for the spirit.” ― Dan Desmarques
- “Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “The key to happiness – or that even more desired thing, calmness – lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.” ― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
- “Ironically, to “inspire” means to breathe, to infuse life by breathing. As with a lot of things that have the capacity to inspire, it takes some time to get past the apparent boredom and find the hidden secrets. I figure if I keep harping on it, maybe someone will eventually explore the possibility long enough to realize just how breathtaking it is.” ― Darrell Calkins
- “The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.” ― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
- “I am determined not to spread news that I do not know to be certain and not to utter words that can cause division or discord.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
- “The temptations and reactions that can cause non-creativity, imbalance and distraction are many. Let’s start with the prejudice everyone has against imposed challenges. It’s a concept that people associate with an accusation, a kind of guilty until proven innocent. Or, you’re not good enough until you prove it, with the implication behind this that you will probably fail or are unworthy. If you settle for this association at the expense of perceiving the actuality and necessity of challenge, or Creative Resistance, in hundreds or thousands of situations in every day of your life, and in anything worthy of your attention, you bought into the illusion sold basically to keep you small, in control, like those and safe for those who sell it.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “Just as the smell of the earth during a Summer rain… Oh, how lovely is to love and to be loved in return.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to ‘reboot’ your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!” ― Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
- “There can be nothing more purer than the heart of a person who is thinking of sacrificing his most precious thing for other’s sake.”Quote from-I Know You Now.” ― Sushant Changotra, I Know You Now
- “I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.” ― Tana French, In the Woods
- “Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: ‘Well done, David – you should be happy, you’re the first clean rider.” ― David Millar, Racing Through the Dark
- “In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.” ― Lionel Suggs