#happiness

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#angry #forgive #forgiveness #grudge #happiness

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

#constitutes #fidelity #happiness #idea #many

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to. ↗

— David Gilmour

#happiness #happy #life #quality #the-film-club

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#happiness #family

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#astronomy-vs-gastronomy #food #happiness #food

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#dispenses #good #good cook #happiness #like

It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. ↗

— Haim Shapira

#happiness #wisdom #funny

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#happiness #life #art

and we laugh and laugh and all I know is at this moment I feel like I can do anything I want and be anyone I want and go anywhere on the globe and still call it home ↗

— Kirsten Smith

#happiness #laughter #wanderlust #home

The night I left home I felt that I had been tricked or trapped into going - and not even by Mrs Winterson, but by the dark narrative of our life together. Her fatalism was so powerful. She was her own black hole that pulled in all the light. She was made of dark matter and her force was invisible unseen except in its effects. What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#home