#pines

The truth of living is proved not by the inevitability of death but by the wonder that we lived at all. Remembering lives from the past ratifies that truth, more and more so the older we get. When I was growing up, my father told me once, "Do by look for happiness; life itself is happiness." It took me years to understand what he meant. The value of a life lived; the sheer value of living. ↗

— Nina Sankovitch

#happiness #life #life-lessons #death

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary. ↗

— Albert Camus

#happiness #human #death

Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#discovering-who-you-are #feeling-alone #finding-yourself #happiness #happiness-comes-from-within

And then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. ___ done ast me to marry him again, this time in the spirit as well as in the flesh, and just after I say, Naw, I still don't like frogs, but let's us be friends, Shug write me she's coming home. Now. Is this life or not? *I be so calm.* If she come, I be happy. If she don't I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn. ↗

— Alice Walker

#sense-of-self #the-color-purple #home

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#fairy-tales #happiness #inspirational #madness #wisdom

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #dreams

With Each Day Going By Hope is Reborn, Dreams Come True and a Little Step is Taken Toward Happiness. May this May be Unbelievably Exceptional, Amazingly Colorful and Filled with Joy, Laughter and Love. ↗

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#love #may #month #month-of-may #smile

幸福其實很簡單，就是這樣出現，只要你相信自己可以去發現，然後，不放棄好奇。 ↗

— Milly

#life

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health care; mobility; physical safety, social safety, job security, savings account, insurance, disability protection, family leave, vacation; place tenure, a commons; access to wilderness, mountains, ocean; peace, political stability, political input, political satisfaction; air, water, esteem; status, recognition; home, community, neighbors, civil society, sports, the arts; longevity treatments, gender choice; the opportunity to become more what you are that's all you need ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#necessities #simplicity #the-good-life #art

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#empowerment #happiness #life #motivational #seize-the-day