#happiness

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#thinking #wisedom #time

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#life #sea #life

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#happiness #risk #life

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#life

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#happiness #loser #sisterhood #life

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Todd Akin

#believe #blessed #creator #defines #freedom

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? ↗

— Bo Bennett

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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#choosing #disappointing #does #half #happiness