#pines

Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness. ↗

— Jerry L. Ainsworth

#happiness #healing #health #love #love

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#happiness #love #sex #love

I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#love #love

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. ↗

— James Taylor

#love #relationships #love

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage ↗

— Adam Phillips

#marriage

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. ↗

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

#history #life

The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#life #purpose #life

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#happiness #joy #practice #work #life

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#happiness #travel #life

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#happiness #lesson #life #love #peace