#happiness

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#foundation #happiness #slight #too

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#happens #happiness #happy #hardship #hell

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom? ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#family #happiness #life #family

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#always #leave #miserable #otherwise #something

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

#child #dark #end #just #might

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#crying #happiness #reason #sadness #tears

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#capable #comparable #discovery #give #happiness

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#happy