Quotes by S G

“Sacrifice doesnt mean giving up something for nothing”

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness”

“No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.”

“We have to go. I'm almost happy here.”

“... there's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known, the din of human static slowly fades...”

“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer...”

“Most European nations identify themselves with eagles or lions, with some predator or creature of the air, ascendant and belligerent. I would like to visit the country which adopts the groundhog as...”

“Erase from your vocabulary the word someday. Do not save things for special occasions. Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thank...”

“Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.”

“Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.”

“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”

“I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.”

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

“That's the big picture, your happiness. And health. You should never care what a man thinks of you -- until he demonstrates to you that he cares about making you happy. If he isn't trying to make y...”

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were aski...”

“It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different,...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

“Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.”

“Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.”