#pine

As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#home #love

A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night. ↗

— Chloe Rattray

#happiness #love #summer #love

Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied. ↗

— Kristen Crockett

#happiness #love #new-relationship #life

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. ↗

— Deborah Day

#nurturing #self-esteem #self-help #self-love #love

Did you know that baby, You're the bluebird in my sky, I only want to make you happy Because I love you see you fly ↗

— Nick Carter

#love #love

When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers. ↗

— karen Blixon

#happiness-sadness #love

we used to play around with our implicitly, we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self, until there is one thing that may be forgotten: is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it? ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#happiness #implicitly #incomplete #love #we

Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away. Then only LOVE remains... ↗

— Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#happiness #kindness #love #patience #love

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#motivational #motivational