#happines

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#happiness #hardly #make #other #possible

Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#companionship #dances #forgiveness #happiness #life

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#benevolence #cause #charity #expecting #harm

..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror. ↗

— Chris Bailey

#happiness #horror #i #know #lots

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#friendship #good #habitual #happiness #inclination

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#call #choose #life #more #our

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#get #getting #happiness #success is #want

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#be happy #both #generous #happy #hunt

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic