#happiness

and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#grant #i #most #nothing #than

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#agreeable #another #arising #contemplating #misery

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#poetry #beauty

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not. ↗

— Anne Perry

#happiness-life #life

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#free #free market #happiness #humanity #influence

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#after #chases #everyone #heels #noticing

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#different #fulfillment #gotten #happiness #just

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#contains #germ #growth #itself

Happiness does not consist in self-love. ↗