#happines

Oui, c'est votre idée, à vous tous, les ouvriers français, déterrer un trésor, pour le manger seul ensuite, dans un coin d'égoïsme et de fainéantise. Vous avez beau crier contre les riches, le courage vous manque de rendre aux pauvres l'argent que la fortune vous envoie... Jamais vous ne serez dignes du bonheur, tant que vous aurez quelque chose à vous, et que votre haine des bourgeois viendra uniquement de votre besoin enragé d'être des bourgeois à leur place. ↗

— Émile Zola

#happiness #poverty #courage

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#happiness #poet #courage

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour. ↗

— Victoria Moran

#compromise #exercise #happiness #health #injury

If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth. ↗

— Ryū Murakami

#happiness #joy #love #peace #relationship

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#green-thumb #happiness #nature #education

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it ↗

— Ron Rash

#fun #happiness #life #schooling #education

幸福其實很簡單，就是這樣出現，只要你相信自己可以去發現，然後，不放棄好奇。 ↗

— Milly

#life

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air, water, esteem; status, recognition; home, community, neighbors, civil society, sports, the arts; longevity treatments, gender choice; the opportunity to become more what you are that's all you need ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#necessities #simplicity #the-good-life #art

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. ↗

— Primo Levi

#holocaust #inspirational #survival #equality

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#inspirational #inspirational