#happiness

You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel. ↗

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

#australia #being #california #dreams #find

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#happiness #independence #other #political

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#circumstances #does #even #everything #give

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes". ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#happiness #unhappiness #happy

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#happiness #stories #happy

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#man #trouble #happy

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. ↗