#pine

And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things. ↗

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

#dangerous #excited #excitement #fall #happiness

I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#kindness #love #peace #love

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#god #happiness #love #love

When you feel down and out you must reach up and out--to Spirit! Our strength will only resonate deep within your souls if you open your heart and minds with us. ↗

— Jim Fargiano

#happiness #inner-strength #love #motivation #spiritual

He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#happiness #how-to-be-happy #unhappiness #love

What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? ↗

— David Levithan

#love #time #love

I’ve been able to see all that I’ve needed, my love: your kindness, your compassion, your tenderness, your love, and your soul. These are all I care about. Of course you do and I don’t expect anything different from you. But next time, I will give you more. You’ll see the colours of every season. ↗

— Jacquie Underdown

#happiness #love #lovers #love

The mighty are beggars, child. They rattle silver cups by the roadside, pleading for love. ↗

— Robert V.S. Redick

#love

It doesn't really seem possible that being happy is as simple as deciding to focus on what is good in the world and not on what is bad ↗

— Missy Marston

#love

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#happiness #love #trust #love