#pine

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #present #tears

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child’s life, and in a child’s level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side ↗

— Maki Enjouji

#marriage

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ever #find #happiness #her #hunting

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. ↗

— Josh Billings

#find #fit #good #good way #happiness

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. ↗

— Bette Davis

#else #everything #expense #found #i

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism. ↗

— Cofer Black

#happy #life #long #lot #people

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

#condition #first #full #happiness #lasting

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. ↗

— Alain Delon

#giving #happiness #i #knew #real