#pine

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

#duty #happiness #inseparably #moral #moral duty

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#gift #given #happiness #laugh #life

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#came #curtain #dark #field #flat

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#happier #happy #longer #soon #wish

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. ↗

— Diane Lane

#cook #either #happiness #having #i

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. ↗