#happiness

HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#happiness #inspirational #love #marriage #family

Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush ↗

— Abbi Glines

#happiness #lost #love #new-beginnings #imagination

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. ↗

— Donna Rice

#before #believed #between #boat #choice

Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest, most swollen and logic shattering happiness I've ever experienced. One moment would be a wall of happiness so tall it could not be scaled; the next felt like falling into a pit of sadness that had no bottom. I realized you could not have one without the other, that this great capacity to love and be happy can be experienced only with this great risk of having happiness taken from you - to tremble, always, on the edge of loss. ↗

— Emily Rapp

#happiness #loss #death

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit. ↗

— Epicurus

#pleasure #freedom

The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fearless #freedom #happiness #inspirational #refinement

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#philosophy #laugh

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#happiness #wealth #wisdom #money

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #kindness #spreading-sunshine

Words of love cast from thy lips reach another heart at lightning speed. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#heart #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #lightning-speed