#pines

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#happiness #people

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#life #the-boat-that-rocked #truth #life

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#happiness #life #life

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#happiness-life #law-of-attraction-books #motivational-books #positive-mindset #life

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#life #living-life-to-the-full #love #life

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. ↗

— John Belushi

#happiness #i #state #time #want

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#catholicism #christianity #church #discipline #happiness

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ↗

— John Green

#unhappiness #person

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ↗

— Edward Lear

#happiness #nursery-rhymes #happy

Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days. They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #joy #richelle #richelle-goodrich #richelle-goodrich