#happin

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#love #sadness #love

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. ↗

— John Fowles

#love #love

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ↗

— Freya Stark

#different #happiness #things

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

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

#cannot #consumes #destroys #end #ever

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

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general