#pines

I was so happy it was like a food, like I'd been stuffed with it, a foie gras goose of happiness; happy enough to know, fully, that I was happy, and foolishly, for one second, to dare the thought: "Imagine—imagine if each Saturday morning could be like this," and in the middle of the singing, I blushed, not even looking at her, because even just having it I knew there was something wrong about the thought. Another boundary crossing—an acknowledgment to myself, so fleeting but so dangerous, of how hungry I was. ↗

— Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

#the-nature-of-happiness #food

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#come #enlightenment #happiness #history #human

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#alex #another #brings #character #happiness

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#happiness #freedom

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#full #happiness #involves #power #talents

Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away. ↗

— George Alexiou

#change #empowerment #happiness #inspirational #integrity

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#everything #fact #family #finalist #first

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#fulfillment #happiness #pursuit #pursuit of happiness

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#gotten #happiness #i #outside #point

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#book #falling #fly #flying #freedom