"Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?"

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Source : Amity Gaige (2013). “Schroder”, p.20, Faber & Faber

Amity Gaige

#Past Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.”
“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”
“People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artistâ€™s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as Iâ€™m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.”
“Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.60, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.”
“She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.”
“Raw food is the best way to have the cleanest energy. We take so much care about what kind of fuel we put in our car, what kind of oil. We care about that sometimes more than the fuel that we're looking at putting in our bodies. It's cleaner burning fuel.”
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

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