#pine

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#leo-tolstoy #literature #russia #change

Life is happy when u make it. Its boring when u hate it ↗

— Sreeja Pai

#hate #inspirational #life #inspirational

We change the world a little each day with our kindness. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#happy #help #helping-others #kind #kindness

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. ↗

— Deborah Day

#happiness #personal-growth #well-being #change

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all. ↗

— St. Bede

#agnosticism #brevity #happiness #life #religion

...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #moon #pines #poetry #snow

The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died. This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is. ↗

— Ron Rash

#love #love

The mighty are beggars, child. They rattle silver cups by the roadside, pleading for love. ↗

— Robert V.S. Redick

#love

It doesn't really seem possible that being happy is as simple as deciding to focus on what is good in the world and not on what is bad ↗

— Missy Marston

#love

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#happiness #love #trust #love