#pines

It's lovely to see people so happy. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-s-boys #louisa-may-alcott #love

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #ibsen #moroseness #sombre-mood #unhappiness

Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me? ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#humor #prom #relationships #humor

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #love #marriage #humor

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#continue #fairer #happiness #imagination #living

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bear #courage #how #knows #man

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#done #greatness #just #may #must

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#happiness #more #producing #right #than

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. ↗

— George A. Smith

#again #contentment #depend #growth #happiness