#pines

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#music #refuge #souls

The secret of happiness is something to do. ↗

— John Burroughs

#secret #something

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

#function #functioning #happiness #happy #simply

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#going #happiness #hear #interested #nobody

Every age has its happiness and troubles. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#every #happiness #troubles

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#asking #brave #done #enough #ever

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. ↗

— Chanakya

#greedy #happiness #here #moving #peace

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#doubled #form #gratitude #happiness #highest

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#difference #fool #generally #greatest #happiest

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #being #citizen #freedom #freeman