Q. Dear Yoko, you are known for your positivity. How do you fight away depression and anxiety? A. You don’t have to fight away. Stick with it, and you will one day be bored with it.
Yoko Ono
Quotes on Happiness, RSS
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Leo Sara Teasdale, “The Philosopher” -
It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of Enlightenment.
Lama Yeshe -
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hahn -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi -
The brain cells for depression are the ones that die out first.
Leaonard Cohen -
Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you an around-the-world air ticket whenever you want. Splitting up with Mat (Collishaw) was incredibly heart breaking, but you have to deal with it. Tough shit. I went to Australia for a few months.
Tracy Emin -
Every night now I say this: ‘The night was quiet and nature was resting and I was at peace.’ And then I can sleep. I made it up myself. Isn’t that great? Saying it now my eyes feel a little tired.
Brian Wilson -
It’s as if there’s a golden city that everyone wants to visit and I’m coming down from having visited and I see people sweating and tearing through brambles trying to get up and I want to say, ‘Don’t go there, it doesn’t exist, it’ll hurt you and it’s pointless.’ That golden city is fame, achievement, riches and all the rest of it.
Stephen Fry -
For me, the secret to happiness, which I may not be able to follow myself, is that you should be happy with what you have and not always be hankering.
Ravi Shankar -
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard -
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it…. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Alice Walker,The Color Purple, 1982 -
You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
Steven D. Woodhull -
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian -
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Peter Drucker