If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. ― Leo Babauta

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. ― Emily Dickinson

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Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce. ― Neil Gaiman

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going. ― Hlovate

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I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have. ― Holly Black

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I was nineteen. You had your lips on my neck and whispers in my ear. You drove me crazy. But I mistook crazy for absolute happiness. ― Dominic Riccitello

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ― Soren Kierkegaard

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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. ― Raymond Carver

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