Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…
One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind the scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel.
onethousandbookproject:
# 32: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The tremendous popularity of The Little Prince does not come as a surprise to anyone that has read it. The narrator’s encounter with the Little Prince in the Saharan desert after his plane crashes sends him back into his own childhood. The narrator’s friendship with the Prince makes him realize that he has lost his own childhood sense of wonder and fascination with the mundane. I have always loved the way this novella forces its readers to yearn to discover their own inner children and examine their own lives to find the fruitless obsessions. I highly recommend this one; you will never look at stars the same way.
Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.
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Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)
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I will break these chains that bind me. Happiness will find me. Leave the past behind me. Today, my life begins.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That’s what we like to think. But that’s not the way it is, is it? Somethings we’d just have to learn over and over and over again.
Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you’ll have no one to blame but yourself if things don’t work out the way you’d hoped…their opinion shouldn’t matter more than your own.
