#pines

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #past #present #tears

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child’s life, and in a child’s level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side ↗

— Maki Enjouji

#marriage

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. ↗

— Alain Delon

#giving #happiness #i #knew #real

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#avoided #composed #misfortunes

The happiness of society is the end of government. ↗

— John Adams

#government #happiness #society

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#companions #conversation #enjoyment #few #first

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#essentials #grand #happiness #life #love

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#becomes #corrupt #enemy #happiness #less

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#commitment #counting #form #happiness #higher