“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“You often do not know what's best for your life. Predicting your future does not make it more guaranteed to happy. It just closes you off. It gets you attached to an idea that you only want to be reality because you're attached to it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“People aren't interested or attracted to just 'happy' and 'beautiful.' They're interested in people who are interested in things.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“A good life is not measured by what you do, it's about who you are. Not how many people you loved, but how much. It has nothing to do with how well things turn out or how seamlessly the plan is followed. It's about the bits of magic you stumble upon when you dive off path.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“What would be too good to believe if someone were to sit down and tell you what's coming next in your life?”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We all have a tolerance for how 'good' we'll let ourselves feel, our 'upper limit.'”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you're operating on a scarcity mindset, you'll always be unhappy, no matter what you have or get.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“In fearing that happiness won't last forever, we lose it. In fearing that grief will last forever, we create it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You cannot save up your happiness; you can either feel it in the moment or you miss it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Many of us are colorblind to the joys and complexities of our lives and it is because we are missing a part of the foundation.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“There are three primary form of happiness. Just as removing one of the primary colors would make many others impossible, without any one of these happinesses, it is almost impossible to thrive.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Happy people may lose everything they have but people who never choose to fully step into their lives never have anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The idea that beautiful, joyous things could simply be ours without any conscious creation of them on our part is terrifying, because the opposite could just as well be true.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Happiness is arriving at the end goal. Deciding to be that way every day can make it seem as though the race is already over, so we subconsciously associate 'happiness' and 'acceptance' with 'giving up.'”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Everybody has a limited tolerance for feeling good. When things go beyond that limit, we sabotage ourselves so that we can return to our comfort zones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“As soon as our circumstances extend beyond the amount of happiness we're accustomed to and comfortable feeling, we unconsciously begin to self-sabotage. We are programmed to seek what we've known. So, even though we think we're after happiness, we're actually trying to find whatever we're most accus…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“When things don't work out the way you want them to, you think you've failed only because you didn't re-create something you perceived as desirable. In reality, you likely created something better, but foreign, and your brain misinterpreted it as 'bad.'”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The best revenge is just moving on and getting over it. Don't give someone the satisfaction of watching you suffer.”— The Good Vibe, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves, they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com