#happines

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #born #fit #happiness #happy

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#also #beacon #fond #fond memories #future

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#end #enjoyment #enriched #every #good

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. ↗

— Aeschylus

#burden #burdened #disease #doubles #groans

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ↗

— Aeschylus

#effort #happiness #requires #times

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#contrary #even #happiness #him #his

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#delightful #fruit #got #happiness #into

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. ↗

— Mario Batali

#continuously #eat #else #finding #fulfillment

we're all golden sunflowers inside. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#happiness #love #love

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism. ↗

— Cofer Black

#happy #life #long #lot #people