Do you believe in luck? I grew up in a family with a mother steeped in superstition and she was forever on the prowl for lucky chances. Perhaps because she believed her life was so luck-less or maybe it was linked to her alleged gypsy heritage. Knock over the salt and she was flicking three pinches over her left shoulder. Walk past a statue of a Buddha and you had to rub its belly and make sure it was facing East. God help the child that put new shoes on the kitchen counter and may your forsaken soul find redemption if you opened
Browsing category: Happiness
"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." Carl Jung
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are." Goldie Hawn
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." Golda Meir
"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts." Paramahansa Yogananda
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
Rumi
"Earth laughs in flowers." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Laughter is an instant vacation." Milton Berle