The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well. Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?

Ruth Ahmed
About This Quote

There are a lot of alternatives to the life that you live, but very few of them will make you happy. If you were suddenly unemployed, would you be happy? Alone, would you be happy? If you were despondent and watching daytime TV, would you be happy? These alternatives will all lead to a miserable life that could only end in a variety of ways. If you want to find happiness in your life then help people, not just through charity but also through your actions.

Source: When Ali Met Honour

Some Similar Quotes
  1. We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. - Walter Mosley
  2. One day spent with someone you love can change everything. - Mitch Albom
  3. There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,... - Douglas Adams
  4. If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. - C.s. Lewis
  5. People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing. - Jandy Nelson
More Quotes By Ruth Ahmed
  1. The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well. Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?
  2. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,
  3. People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.
  4. They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with. I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?
  5. The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.
Related Topics