new york is a fantasy world, just being itself. no need to add or subtract anything to make it any more magical.
When I was 5 my mother told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t understand life.
- John Lennon
If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ~ Les Giblin
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
In life, the most interesting things tend to happen when you’re on your way to do something else.
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Never expect. Never assume. Never ask. And never demand. Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it will happen.
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I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy. You know, we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that fixes everything. But happiness is a mood and a condition, it’s not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry; it’s not permanent, it comes and goes, and that’s okay. And I feel like if people thought of it that way, they’d find happiness a lot more often.
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