#happines

You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #illness #love #marriage #safety

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way. ↗

— Roberta Gellis

#happiness #historical #love #marriage #romance

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#happiness #marriage #marriage

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#contentment #decisions #greed #happiness #love

mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage est pure affaire de hasard. La félicité de deux époux ne m’apparaît pas devoir être plus grande du fait qu’ils se connaissaient à fond avant leur mariage ; cela n’empêche pas les divergences de naître ensuite et de provoquer les inévitables déceptions. Mieux vaut, à mon avis, ignorer le plus possible les défauts de celui qui partagera votre existence ! ↗

— Jane Austen

#love-story #marriage #love

Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. ‘Accentuate the positive.’ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#happiness #happy #inspirational #lds #inspirational

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#happiness #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #love #motivational #talent

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment. ↗

— John Kuypers

#inspirational-quotes #present-moment #self-improvement #inspirational

Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together. ↗

— Timothy M. Brenner

#inspirational #love #romance #inspirational