#pines

Altogether, Olympia thinks the sight of herself satisfactory, but not beautiful: a smile is missing, a certain light about the eyes. For how very different a woman will look when she has happiness, Olympia knows, when her beauty emanates from a sense of well-being or from knowing herself to be greatly loved. Even a plain woman will attract the eye if she is happy, while the most elaborately coiffed and bejeweled woman in a room, if she cannot summon contentment, will seem to be merely decorative. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#happiness #beauty

To me, flowers are happiness. ↗

— Stefano Gabbana

#happiness #me

Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears. Tells use where delights are lurking. Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#living-life #education

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature ↗

— John Piper

#communication

Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver, Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver! ↗

— Rainis

#happiness #life #courage

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#get #happiness #moment #night #out

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid. ↗