"The secret of happiness is something to do."

-- John Burroughs

#Happiness Quotes #Inner Peace Quotes #Secret Quotes

“We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.”
“Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.”

Source : FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from May 29, 2016
“I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
“The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.”
“We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.”
“If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?”
“Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that it's possible to see something beautiful.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.54, Penguin

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