#happines

There is something innocently beautiful about watching two people behave as though no one else existed, and lovingly act silly together. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationships #silly

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#giving #happiness #having #only

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness. ↗

— David Guterson

#happiness #passion #death

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#want

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#being #family #happiness #i #i love

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

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