#happiness

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#awhile #come #drunk #get #great

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. ↗

— Princess Diana

#call #come #come running #destiny #distress

Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#happiness #inspiration #inspirational-attitude #live-in-the-here-and-now #live-in-the-moment

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#foundation #happiness #health #people #powers

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#feeling #happiness #beauty

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #around #be happy #get #got

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

#like #memory #nothing #prevents