15 Things You Should Give Up in Order to be Happy @ PurposeFairy
I know this post @ PurposeFairy is a little bit cheesy/idealistic but I think it’s rather accurate and would love to hear your thoughts :) ?
- Lex: Well done on that happiness, I'm in favour of that.
- Me: Let's hope it sticks.
- Lex: You have to lick it and then press it down and then it sticks.
Unexpected
I feel so fully, completely, wholly happy today that I keep wanting to burst into tears because it’s such a marvellous & surprising feeling.
Tags: happiness
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Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t. It’s like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you’ll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
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Dan Wells
I don’t think happiness is natural.
Reblogged from the other side
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A keen wind that had been hiding itself struck me full in the mouth and raked the hair back horizontal on my head. I was descending, but the white sun rose no higher. It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist. A small, answering point in my own body flew toward it. I felt my lungs inflate with the in rush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“a small, answering point”
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Hey, everybody wants a short cut in life. My guide book is very simple. You wanna lose weight? Stop eating, fatty! You wanna make money? Work your ass off, lazy! You wanna be happy? Find someone you like and never let him go. Or her if you’re into that kind of…creepy shit.
— Tommy in Friends With Benefits, a film I saw today and loved. Thousands of times better than No Strings Attached, much more interesting and with a stronger female lead. Will Gluck has me eating out of his hand (first Easy A then this?! Oh joy of joys).
Reblogged from FrenchToast!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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