#pines

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#gluttony #happiness #pleasure #food

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#happiness #violin #food

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. ↗

— Auguste Escoffier

#happiness #food

It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#love #food

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ↗

— Dan Savage

#happiness #politics #freedom

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#happiness #knowledge #education

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#happiness #freedom

Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#freedom #happiness #freedom

...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative... ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#freedom

It is more important to be free than to be happy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#happiness #tom-robbins #freedom