#pines

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#contributes #fact #find #happiness #in fact

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#happiness #pearls #romance #tears #dreams

I don't know the true meaning of happiness. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#i #know #meaning #meaning of #true

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. ↗

— Princess Diana

#call #come #come running #destiny #distress

Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#happiness #inspiration #inspirational-attitude #live-in-the-here-and-now #live-in-the-moment

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#feeling #happiness #beauty

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #around #be happy #get #got

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her