#happy

At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#problem #unhappy #love

I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow, Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now! ↗

— Elizabeth Akers Allen

#love #poetry #love

Weight has always been one of those issues for me that won’t go away. I know, not terribly original, but what can I say? McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal in my hometown on my seventh birthday, for Christ’s sake. ↗

— Kirstie Collins Brote

#humor #mcdonalds #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #nineties

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#happy #london #love #morning #simple-living

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#catholic #clinging #deer #guns #happy

in the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely. ↗

— Padgett Powell

#men

Happiness springs up from within. Do not seek it without. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #within #without #inspirational

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#inspirational #inspirational

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough. ↗

— Shannon Kaiser

#happy #inspirational #love #peace #people

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. ↗

— Martha Beck

#challenge #creating #die #end #happy