#happin

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

#capture #close #come #completeness #describing

Happiness isn’t the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flower, the majesty of the world in which we are central. Look over your shoulder at how far you’ve come and all the good things you’ve experienced and that is when you will see the smiling face of happiness. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#joy #life #beauty

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

#enough #giving #giving back #happiness #indulge

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#country #depends #every #form #government

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. ↗

— William Hall

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Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy ↗

— Tim Willocks

#sadness #religion