Happy birthday mama. Love you and miss you. Can’t wait to see you again ☺☻ (Taken with Instagram at Stow Lake, Golden Gate Park)
"I have faith that what happens is for the best, whether I understand it or not."
— (via mitchvillareal)
"Every culture has developed drugs ranging from peyote to heroin to alcohol in an effort to improve the quality of experience…however, chemically induced well-being lacks a vital ingredient of happiness: the knowledge that one if responsible for having achieved it. Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
"As is true of addiction in general, material rewards at first enrich the quality of life. Because of this, we tend to conclude that the more must be better. But life is rarely linear; in most cases, what is good in small quantities becomes commonplace and then harmful in larger doses."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, If We Are So Rich, Why Aren’t We Happy?
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
— Leo Rosten
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via mitchvillareal)
"He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand."
— Richard Siken, from “Anyway”
(Source: ohsymantha, via fleurishes)
"I guess I could be really pissed off about what happened to me… but it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain. And I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure. But don’t worry… you will someday."
— American Beauty
