Happiness & Tears, Jan Duindam 1977

You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you’re eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

Abraham-Hicks

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Originally Posted By digitalpharaoh

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (via girlinlondon)

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Originally Posted By abukowskiaday

a terrible need.

some people simply search out
unhappiness, they’ll scrounge it out
in any given situation
taking any whim
any simple error
and then becoming hateful
vengeful.

don’t they realize that
there’s so little
time?
and to mutilate it
like this…
there’s never
ever
any way
to recover
all that was
wasted.

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Originally Posted By journeytoenlightenment-deactiva

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 a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.

Osho (via suzywire)

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

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Originally Posted By sirmitchell

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon (via sirmitchell)

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Originally Posted By liveaninspiringlife

What do you truly, deeply desire? Or put differently, what are the goals whose fulfillment you believe will make your life more complete? Perhaps you are dreaming of a new career, more abundance, or the perfect life partner. Now ask yourself: Why do I want what I want? Although the number of desires you can have is infinite, you will see that the ultimate goal of all your intentions is happiness and love. The spiritual secret is this: What you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity – it’s the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.

Deepak Chopra (via liveaninspiringlife)

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Originally Posted By nirvikalpa-deactivated20110625-

Spend five minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

Dalai Lama (via yogaprivatelessons)

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Originally Posted By gwenmccartney

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon (via gwenmccartney)

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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives.

Stephen R. Covey

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller (via oceanofmind)

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a terrible need.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Spend five minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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