#pines

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself. ↗

— Roger Housden

#death

It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too much to do that, but rather than he does not situate himself in any of these three scales of time. Instead, he is forever stuck somewhere in-between, this evening, tomorrow morning, next week, next Christmas, in five years’ time. As a result, he has neither the joy of the present moment, nor the satisfied accomplishments of a human lifetime, nor the perspective and immortality of the eternal. ↗

— Neel Burton

#happiness #immortality #meaning #time #death

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#be happy #forever #good #great #happiness

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#berserk #big #big head #came #child

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#attached #depends #love #object #quality

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#reward #virtue

Love is trembling happiness. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#love #love is #trembling

The groundwork of all happiness is health. ↗