#happin

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#compassion #happiness #helping-others #service #slavery

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#unhappiness #men

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. ↗

— P.D. James

#love #protection #responsibility #self-sufficiency #solitude

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#happiness #happy #joy #pain #relief

Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur." ("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.") [Journal entry, 10 December 1801] ↗

— Stendhal

#reality #reality-check #self-knowledge #self-perception #unhappiness

I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion. ↗

— Tony Hsieh

#money

I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through--poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap--money unhappiness. --"$10,000 a Year, Easy ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#money

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ↗

— Hobart Brown

#money #money

As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#money #money

I am not fond of Money but what i have to do in order to get it, i am fond of what i get in exchange for it's worth rather than money itself. ↗

— Sachin Kumar Puli

#happiness #money #work #money