#happin

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. ↗

— Todd Garlington

#freedom #happiness #history #idealism #money

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. ↗

— Cyrus the Great

#happiness #humor #life #love #philosophy

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#frankenstein #happiness #tranquility #science

Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#design #happiness #intent #life #motivation

A judgment with an evil design comes about when we compare a person to our pre-conceived beliefs about what is right or wrong and then condemn that person. ↗

— John Kuypers

#faith #happiness #marriage-advice #non-judgment #relationships

And then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. ___ done ast me to marry him again, this time in the spirit as well as in the flesh, and just after I say, Naw, I still don't like frogs, but let's us be friends, Shug write me she's coming home. Now. Is this life or not? *I be so calm.* If she come, I be happy. If she don't I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn. ↗

— Alice Walker

#sense-of-self #the-color-purple #home

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#fairy-tales #happiness #inspirational #madness #wisdom

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #dreams

With Each Day Going By Hope is Reborn, Dreams Come True and a Little Step is Taken Toward Happiness. May this May be Unbelievably Exceptional, Amazingly Colorful and Filled with Joy, Laughter and Love. ↗

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#love #may #month #month-of-may #smile

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#green-thumb #happiness #nature #education