#pines

I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in a household like this." Susan said, "Why don't you leave those so-called children out of the discussion? They don't even exist yet. Why can't you just admit that you don't want to live in unhappiness anymore? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#not-settling-for-second-best #love

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. ↗

— Jan Struther

#marriage #marriage

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed. ↗

— Homer

#beauty #happiness #love #marriage #marriage

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. ↗

— Barbara Barrington Jones

#change

Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#escape #running-away #unhappiness #movies

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ↗

— Willa Cather

#nature

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#human-nature #psychology #social-commentary #nature

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#nature #nature

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#nature

There is no need to always require a smile! Happiness is more of a look in the eyes, than a smile on the face! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#quotes-on-happiness #smile-happiness-expression #the-expression-of-happiness #the-nature-of-happiness #nature