#pines

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life

Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#happiness #life #life

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#fall #happiness #life #life

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#kindness #life #political-beliefs #life

Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason. ↗

— Robert Tew

#judging #life #life-lessons #life-quote #love

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. ↗

— Toba Beta

#control #happiness #joyful #life #mood

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been." -Virginia Woolf ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#life #romance #life

Call no man happy until he is dead. ↗

— Solon

#happiness #history #philosophy #the-good-life #life

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #negation #suffering #life

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#joy #life #life-lessons #living-life #life