"Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you. A ghost wandering around in search of your body, eager to possess you. We are addicted to the self we construct. Slaves to what we have done."

—	Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune (via astranemus)

"Fall in love with someone who wants you, who waits for you. who understands you even in the madness; someone who helps you, and guides you, someone who is your support, your hope. fall in love with someone who talks with you after a fight. Fall in love with someone who misses you and wants to be with you. Do not fall in love only with a body or with a face; or with the idea of being in love."
—  (via mmxxj)

"For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy."
~Katherine Jenkins

"We must bring about a revolution in our way of living our everyday lives, because our happiness, our lives, are within ourselves."
~Thich Nhat Hanh

" Sometimes simply slowing down, resting and tuning in to the Self are all you need to do to have happiness, peace and beauty reveal themselves to you. " 
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." 
~ Buddha

"To fill the hour - that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for repentance or an approval." 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy." 
~Kirilov in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Possessed

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, won, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." 

 ~Denis Waitley

“The most important scientific discovery about self-control is that it can be taught.” 
- Walter Mischel, psychologist

“Yes, you can focus on the darkness, it’s there, and you can focus on light. But one will bring you joy and one will bring you pain. It’s your choice.” 
— RuPaul

Trying to remember this. Gotta really get back into the gym and the working out, and my allergies are gross today and I just want to go home and take a nap...

Gonna go to zumba instead...

“I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do.” - Lon Chaney (source)