#pine

If you don't appreciate her, you don't deserve her. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life #life-lessons #life-quote #relationships #woman

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory. ↗

— Matthieu Ricard

#life #problems #sadness #life

Your purpose is your why. ↗

— Deborah Day

#purpose #purpose-in-life #values #life

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#find #good #happiness #run #see

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#happiness #ignorance #life #life

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#joy #life #sadness #time #life

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#applause #encores #had #happiness #i

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious. ↗

— François Lelord

#unhappiness #life

#1487: Hug a cow. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#happiness #hugs #life