#pine

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #dependence #enjoy #future #present

Where fear is, happiness is not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#happiness #where

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bear #courage #how #knows #man

There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents. --"Bomar ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#money-not-happiness #beauty

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#bitter #eyes #happiness #how #into

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#even #happiness #irish #joy #kind

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#done #greatness #just #may #must

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#happiness #more #producing #right #than

When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness-as-nourishment #importance-of-being-happy #pursuing-happiness #soul-searching #life