#pines

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#experience

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ↗

— Euripedes

#children #disappointment #grief #happiness #his

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#anymore #happiness #hurts #i #life

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#boredom #human #human happiness #pain #two

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#happiness #peace #art

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. ↗

— William Shenstone

#chief #leads #making #pleasure #unhappiness

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#despair #even #flower #happiness #joy

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ↗

— Antonio Gala

#important #nothing #realizing #too

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ↗

— George Orwell

#assume #be happy #happiness #happy #life

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#ideal #imagination #work