#pine

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#imagination

I wondered how my heart could be both light with happiness and heavy with love at the same time. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#heavy #light #love #mile-high #love

So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask. "No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing. ↗

— Katie Kacvinsky

#life #love

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality." ... "But they used to take morphia and cocaine." ... "Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178." ... "Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug." ... "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." ... "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." ... "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." ... "Stability was practically assured. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happiness #huxley #society #stability #immortality

You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#confidence #happiness #inner-beauty #joy #love-yourself

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#beautiful-confidence #beauty #being-yourself #confident #happiness

The Three D's of Creating True Happiness For All....... Declutter - Remove all unwanted items from your home, Donate - to your local charity, Deduct - Save money by claiming your donation on your tax return ↗

— Christina Scalise

#declutter #deduct #donate #happiness #organize

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #life #humor

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen-literature-humor #humor

I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit! ↗

— Sharon Swan

#funny #happiness #happy #humor #funny