#pines

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ↗

— George Burns

#another #caring #city #family #happiness

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#happiness #happy #world #beauty

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #excuses #goal #goals #happiness

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #present #tears

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child’s life, and in a child’s level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side ↗

— Maki Enjouji

#marriage

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism. ↗

— Cofer Black

#happy #life #long #lot #people

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

#condition #first #full #happiness #lasting

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ↗

— Bo Derek

#go #happiness #know #money #said

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#avoided #composed #misfortunes