#pines

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #human #inspirational #understand

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#born #find #greatest #greatest happiness #meant

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#famous #fervor #happiness #her #marriage

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ↗

— Heraclitus

#envy #happiness #lasts #longer #our

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ↗

— Francis Hutcheson

#best #greatest #greatest happiness #happiness #numbers

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#element #happiness #indestructible #perfect #possibility

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#before #between #born #children #confidence

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ↗

— Carl Jung

#happiness #lose #meaning #sadness #were

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#achieved #arrive #assured #climbed #lasting