#happin

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#bringing #contribute #disaster #every #field

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#human #human life #life #make #make up

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bring #half #joy #sweet #taken

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change. ↗

— Rik Leaf

#life #pursuing-happiness #risk-taking #change

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. ↗

— Alan Lightman

#human-nature #tragedy #dreams

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#age

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational #pleasure #age

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#ani-difranco #happiness #older #age

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#life #age