#pines

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#conquer #dragons #fairy #fairy tales #fight

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#feeling #had #happiness #him #loved

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#does #happiness #inward #outward

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#great #great deal #hamas #indonesia #israel

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#duty #find #follow #happiness #own

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#dictate #faith #happiness #helps #inner

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#want

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#being #family #happiness #i #i love