“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
Boglárka
@Boglárka, member from Oct. 22, 2022Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 80
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time
On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”
Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001) South-African physician
New York Times, April 28, 1985; as quoted in A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations by Michael C. Thomsett and Linda Rose Thomsett (McFarland, 2009), p. 111 https://books.google.it/books?id=igYyBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111.
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
Ben Hecht (1894–1964) American screenwriter
from "Elegy for Wonderland", by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 26
“If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Two By Two
“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
“Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger”
Sara Evans (1971) American country singer and songwriter
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale
Source: The Nightingale
“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: Sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
"Prairie" (1918)
Source: Cornhuskers
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
“I will never give up if you never give in.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”
Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
Paulo Coelho book The Zahir
Variant: When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again.
Source: The Zahir