Dhanamusil

“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. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Fear and excitement are chemically the same. Sadness is a hair away from melancholy. Melancholy is almost pleasure, brushing against happiness. It’s all the fucking same.”
― Catherine Hanrahan, Lost Girls and Love Hotels

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together”
― Marilyn Monroe