#pine

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#depair #depression #happiness #illusion #joy

I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots ↗

— Jim Morrison

#happiness #hopelessness #sadness #sleep #fashion

Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world? ↗

— Patricia MacLachlan

#humor #true-to-life #life

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#happy #life

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marriage #marriage

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ↗

— Mildred Barthel

#happiness #optimism #attitude

When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled. ↗

— Gina Lake

#giving #giving-love #happiness #inspirational-attitude #love

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fine #heroic #keep #people #telling

and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#habitual #happiness #kinds #many #seeking