#happin

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #love #marriage #humor

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#imagination

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. ↗

— Red Skelton

#children #god #happiness #reasons #their

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance. ↗

— Irène Némirovsky

#hate #life #love #life

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

#appointment #happiness #never #should #unforeseen

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

You're my present and my future, Sadie. I will use whatever power I have to make you happy." - Jax Stone, #Breathe ↗

— Abbi Glines

#love #love

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#crime #insensibility #much #sensibility #too

If things aren't sailing as smooth as the wind. Ask the Universe to Pencil you IN! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#absence #consist #does #his #life