#happines

Altogether, Olympia thinks the sight of herself satisfactory, but not beautiful: a smile is missing, a certain light about the eyes. For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#happiness #beauty

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature ↗

— John Piper

#communication

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..' I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over ↗

— Josh Stern

#crying #dr-seuss #experience #happiness #joy

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter. You aren't cold. You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay. If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an istant. And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry. -Rachel to Julia ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#happiness #love #friendship

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. ↗

— Graham Greene

#arrange #being #happiness #human #human being

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#harmonious #living #natural #point #point of view

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#happiness #melancholy #sadness #sleep #waking

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#chosen #civilization #compatible #god #happiness

Why are we so quick to limit the possibility of our own happiness? ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#let-go #life #limit #success #experience