I don’t think you’re happier if you’re thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.
“
These
seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot
tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into
roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And
if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life
bitter and die.—Paulo Coelho
”
If every tiny flower
wanted to be a rose,
spring would lose
its loveliness. ♥ ♥ ♥
“
The world
is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t
very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had,
why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-aging
moisturizer? You make someone worry about aging. How do you get
people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about
immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making
them worry about everything. How do you get them to have
plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do
you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about
missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By
making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm
becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own
non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human
selves, would not be good for business.
‘Reasons to Stay Alive’ | Matt Haig
‘Reasons to Stay Alive’ | Matt Haig
Breaking off pieces of yourself to fit into places will not help you belong, it will only make you bleed. Tearing yourself into half to fit in will not help you belong, it will only take your soul. The only way you will ever belong is when you feel complete without anyone reassuring you that you are. You are valid. Alone, or with company. Do not let anything convince you otherwise.
— Nikita Gill
