#happy

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself ↗

— Roald Dahl

#lovely #love

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#happiness #happy #love #others #sacrifice

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#history #sociology #religion

There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied; who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach, they would be happy.  It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back.  Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus, they refuse to be happy.  And you cannot make them so. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#greed #misery #richelle #richelle-goodrich #unappeasable

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning. ↗

— Carmen DeSousa

#happy-ever-after #novel #romance #tragedy #romance-novels

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#climb #completely #feel #happy #higher

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#church #few #forget #free #go

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#early #going #going home #happy #home

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#combination #directing #i #landis #like

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning," she said. "How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position. ↗

— Lauren Alaina

#got #how #i #lose #love