Showing posts with label Happiness Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happiness Quotes. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

You've Got What I Need


“I race you to sleep so I’m already waiting for you in my dreams.”

“Without the rain there would be no rainbow.”
-Gilbert Chesterson

“You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own.”
-D.M. Dellinger

“Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is about to happen.”

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is more likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
-Albert Einstein

“Move on. It’s just a chapter in the past. But don’t close the book. Just turn the page.”

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.”

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”
-Tim McGraw

“You are more important than you realize.”

“You are the closest I will ever come to magic.”

“I love you takes three seconds to say and a lifetime to prove.”

“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. Yes is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”
-Stephen Colbert

“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.”
-Sixteen Candles

“Everyone’s afraid of something, that’s how you know you care about things, when you’re afraid you’ll lose them.”
-The Bodyguard

“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.”
-The Wizard of Oz

“There is fate, but it only takes you so far, because once you’re there it’s up to you to make it happen.”

“There are only seven days in a weekand someday isn’t one of them.”
-Sean Ogle

“The moth lives for just one day, and yet, you will never see it fall to the ground and curse the futility of its existence. Nor flowers weep when winter comes. Nor the moon sigh when dawn approaches. We are only ever given just so much. But it is always all we need.”

“If you never give anything to the world, how will anyone ever know you exist?”

“To burn out you must first be on fire.”

“Life is too cruel. If we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live?”
-Katherine Pierce, The Vampire Diaries

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
-Ayn Rand

“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it.”
-Taylor Swift

“Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There’s only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.”
-Jodi Picoult

“You know what love is? It’s not doing whatever the person you care for expects of you. It’s doing what they don’t expect. It’s going above and beyond what you’ve been asked.”
-Jodi Picoult

“There’s a fine line between seeing something that’s lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”
-Jodi Picoult

“No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone elseand when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it’s a miracle.”
-Jodi Picoult

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
-Jodi Picoult

“There are some nights when you just want to know there’s someone else besides you in this wide world.”
-Jodi Picoult

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
-Jodi Picoult

“When it’s all over, you’re remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.”
-Jodi Picoult

“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty, and your purpose when you are confused.”
-Emily Rose Humpherys

“No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one.”

“Think before you say something hurtful to someone else. It may look like they’re okay but they’re not. Words are more powerful than you think.”
-Justin Bieber

“Sometimes nights spent at home just doing nothing turn out to be the greatest.”
-Miranda Cosgrove

“The right man will love all the things about you that the wrong man was intimidated by.”

“You never fail to amaze me. Everyday there is something new that makes me love you even more than the day before.”

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
-Marilyn Monroe

“Save your heart for someone that’s worth dying for. Don’t give it away. Save your heart for someone who leaves you breathless.”
-Mayday Parade

“We all want to be in the light and shine like stars but are too afraid to come out of the dark and let the inside of us out.”

“Being known isn’t good enough. It’s what you are known for that matters. Think positive live positive. Pay it forward.”
-Justin Bieber

“Are you sleeping through the night? Do you have someone to hold you tight? Do you have someone to hang out with? Do you have someone to hug and kiss you, hug and kiss you, hug and kiss you? Are you alright?”
-Lucinda Williams

“We rarely understand or fully appreciate people’s circumstances.”
-Quentin L. Cook

“If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you are broken, please know you can be mended.”
-Jeffrey R. Holland

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

How to change the weather [make it better] & turn a nightmare into a dream, among other things

Life. It sometimes seems like your world is crashing down around you. Change comes unpredictably. It's something we all have this desire to control, but it's a force of its own. It's unstoppable and uncontrollable. Sometimes change is voluntary, sometimes it's slow and steady and easy, like a nice walk on a beach. Then there are times when change is like a huge storm, hitting you out of nowhere and making you feel like you're drowning and can't catch your breath. It's like a roller coaster you're stuck on and all you want to do is get off. It can turn your life upside down, make people you love and are close to complete strangers, and leave you standing in the wreckage not knowing where to begin on the road to recovery and finding normalcy. 
When I was a kid, life was wonderful, as it is for most, because you're so innocent and anything is possible in the land of make believe. Yet I, and all those around me, were so desperate to grow up. We figured life would just get better and better the older we got. We had so many dreams, like how I wanted to become a princess. And the faster we grew up, the sooner the dreams would become reality. But then reality hit us. Reality is generally cold, lonely, and unfriendly. People crushed our dreams. Society told us our dreams were impossible. And the reality of growing up sometimes was miles, even light years away from our expectations. I learned you can't just want to be a princess. You can't just say you're a princess because life isn't a fairy tale. There's no princessing college. You can't just wish for Prince Charming to show up right away. You have to wait. Because maybe Prince Charming is dealing with his own share of dragons, and he's becoming who he's supposed to be, and the time isn't right. Sometimes you have to wait a long time, and kiss a few frogs, and save yourself, you have to be brave on your own before he comes along. Such is life. 
There is much you can't control, but you can still make the best of life and fight for your dreams. See, you have to fight for everything in this life. Sometimes living is a battle, just day to day. Now all I want is for time to slow down, because it seems like everything is going so fast and I can't keep up or barely breathe. I believe we control our fate. You have to make choices and in the end your choices will make you. 
As the Beatles once said you have to, "Take a sad song and make it better." How do you do this? How do you find hope when it seems hopeless? How do you be happy when everything is so sad? I've learned to take each week and look at the good. Lately, the bad outweighs the good (in my life) and it can be overwhelming, crushing in a sense. But you can't let it bring you down, you have to rise above. Make a mental list or write down all the good things to counteract the bad. 
Good things in my life this week
*Narrowly avoiding a parking ticket because I had to park without my parking pass when I needed it (I'd left it in my mom's car I was driving the week before)
*Spending time with my family
*Planning a fancy tea party with Rian and Hannah (it's on Ri's bucket list & my list of 100 things to do before I die, speaking of which I highly highly highly recommend checking out my blog post "Project Wish". It's my list, and it helps me keep hope. It has dreams and goals that I can constantly work towards. I think everyone should make one!)
*Looking forward to the Grey's Anatomy musical episode!
*Driving in my car blasting my favorite music, singing along not caring if people think I'm crazy.
*Finding the beauty in the breakdown.
*Reconnecting with old friends via Facebook
*Making new friends
*Having all my roommates back in my apartment.
*Watching Titanic for probably the 145th time (I totally should keep a tally for every time I watch it).
*Updating this blog.
*One of my teachers pushing a test back two weeks!
*Wearing new clothes I got shopping last weekend.

Sometimes life is unbelievably challenging. It can feel like a living hell, but you can make it heaven. You can make it better. You always have to remember it can change on a dime in your favor. Living can be hard. It feels like it is lately for me, but you have to remember the times when it was easy and love each moment. You have to make great choices today so your future will be remarkable. Some weeks, my list of wonderful things looks like this:
*I am breathing and alive.
*My family members are all alive and healthy.
*I have amazing friends (the best actually).
*I have shelter, food, clothing, and basically everything I need and want.
*I am going to school, bettering myself and working towards becoming a doctor to save others lives.
*I have the ability to dream.
*Freedom.
*Electricity.
*Writing.
*My Lucy cat.

And there are more, obviously, but even a list as basic as that is lovely. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. It never has been and it never will be. It's a lesson a lot of us don't want to face, but you have to face it. Life may not be what you want it to be today, but that's not to say tomorrow or in a few months or years it won't be what you wanted it to be, if not even better. You have to find and maintain a balance of holding on and letting go. You have to find time everyday to do the things you love to keep you happy (like taking a bubble bath, watching Grey's, writing, hiking, nature walks, reading scriptures, prayer, tea time with Rian and Hannah, e-mails with Brie, and more--that's my list, everyone's is different). Inspire others, it is a circle, it will come back and inspire you. Make your life count because no one will make it that way for you. Remember how many trials and hard times you've gone through and look at how much stronger you are because of them. You can get through this and whatever else life has to throw at you. Life is beautiful.








































Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Pursuit of Happiness
























"Happiness does not come by pressing a button, as does the electric light; happiness is a state of mind and comes from within. It must be earned. It cannot be purchased with money; it cannot be taken for nothing."
-President Spencer W. Kimball

"I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We're always thinking that someday we'll be happy. You know, we'll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that'll fix everything. But happiness is a mood, and it's a condition, it's not a destination. It's like being tired or hungry; it's not permanent, it comes and goes, and that's okay. And I feel like if people thought of it that way they'd find happiness a lot more often."
-One Tree Hill

"Happiness is a choice, and I'm choosing it."

"In this world, it is very difficult to find a happy person because nobody is fulfilling the conditions for being happy. The first condition is that one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you. Be yourself and be happy with you."

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
-Storm Jameson

"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, Eat Pray Love

"I used to think that happiness comes after the hard part is over. But I have learned that we can be happy while enduring."

"Come what may, and love it. Life has peaks and shadows and times when it seems that the birds don't sing and bells don't ring. Yet in spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seems to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser, and happier as a result... I believe that the way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life. If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead towards times of greatest happiness."
-Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"Nobody can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness."

"Everyday is amazing. Even if it's awful. Because everything is for a reason. Because I know that this horrible thing that happens today will bring me something amazing tomorrow."
-Sandra Bullock