But no one can possibly be satisfied, and therefore no one can in my sense be happy, who feels that in some paramount affair he has failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
The absence of feeling bad isn’t enough to make you feel happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good
Happiness Project Calendar (Gretchen Rubin)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
Olivia Wilde (via saddest-summer)