#pine

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books. ↗

— Augusta Scattergood

#civil-rights-movement #happiness #libraries #mississippi-authors #love

She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#unhappiness #change

The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day... ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#going-barefoot #happiness #inspirational-living #inspirational-people #inspirational-quotes

If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #hurting #inner-peace #inspirational-quotes #joy

Spend as much time as possible with positive, joyful people and as little time as possible with negative, unhappy people. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#joy #positive-and-joy #positivity #shining-your-light #spreading-sunshine

You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will there be everything we have hoped for?’ When you realise there’s so little hope left, it is like seeing an entire shadow all over the world. ↗

— Kyra Gregory

#inspirational #life-lessons #living #love #optimism

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #contentment #happily-ever-after #happiness #happy

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-true-to-yourself #cry #crying #finding-yourself #happiness

Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#chasing #choosing-happiness #happiness #happy #positive-thinking

Happily Single" is recognizing that you don’t need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#fairytales #happily-ever-after #happily-single #happiness #happy