#happin

Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#illusion #outlook #perception #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#concept #filled #fine #finer #fulfilled

How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print? ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#poetry #writing #beauty

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#happiness #laughter #like #sound #temple

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #life #light #loss #tragedy

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#happiness #freedom

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ↗