#happiness

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. ↗

— T.H. White

#dichotomy #happiness #pain #stoicism #beauty

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ↗

— Albert Einstein

#be happy #bowl #chair #does #else

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#happiness-life #life #motivational #life

Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #love #quotes #worth #life

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#among #angel #back #darkness #fallen

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

#anything #approach #brings #each #happiness

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#ask #france #happiness #life #love

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#constitution #guarantee #guarantees #happiness #liberty

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#been #catch #completely #constitution #had