#pine

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

#escapism #happiness #paradise #travel #wanderlust

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#give #happiness #hate #life #look

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

#class #construction #greatest #greatest happiness #happiness

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#come #materialism #meaning #will

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. ↗

— Plutarch

#fortunate #less #speak #than #your

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#happiness #little #much #station #too

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. ↗

— George Westinghouse

#fellow #fellow man #happiness #i #man

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#below #enough #happiness #know #man