#happin

I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#leslie #love

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world. ↗

— Hillary DePiano

#happiness #laughter #art

Give freely, love fully, and play feverously! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #life #love #play #rules

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #past #quote #life

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#choose #choose love #composed #forces #freud

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#being #comes #continue #doing #fact

A good education is another name for happiness. ↗

— Ann Plato

#education #good #good education #happiness #name

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") ↗

— Gertrude Atherton

#life #sadness #life

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred