#happiness

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #life

Taking pleasure in the happiness of others – if only our age was so decadent. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#happiness #humor #age

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#design #future #happiness #postpone #present

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever. ↗

— Steven Galloway

#joy #life

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living #society

Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #sex #life

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #misfortune #stories #unhappiness #life

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") ↗

— Gertrude Atherton

#life #sadness #life

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#humor #sadness #funny

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #contentment #enjoyment #happiness #joy