#pine

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#knowledge #intelligence

Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#happiness #life #memory #pleasure #education

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world. ↗

— Julian Gough

#hurt #life #life

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#life

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation? ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life #life

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#life #life

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook. ↗

— David Benioff

#nostalgia #life

The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ↗

— Willa Cather

#happiness #life #nature #success #life

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#jack-johnson #life-lessons #life