Quotable: Happiness Worth Having

Quotable: Happiness Worth Having

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.”– Elizabeth Gilbert

Quotable: Life’s Purpose

Quotable: Life's Purpose

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~ Leo Rosten

Quotable: The Pleasure of Leisure

Quotable: The Pleasure of Leisure

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~John Lubbock

Quotable: The Thirst for Adventure

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S Thompson

Quotable: MLK Jr

 

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

So, so excited to have the day off – but let’s not forget the reasons why: an altruistic man who sacrificed himself for the greater good of society; a wise man who made the world a better place for people like me – and you. ♥