#pines

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#am #beautiful #certainly #days #end

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#different-lives #discontentment #happiness #life #night

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#half #happiness #welsh

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#because #course #great #happiness #i

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#charities #compliment #forgotten #fractions #happiness

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person. ↗

— Tom Walsh

#attitude #expectations #happiness #life #living

The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#beach #done #fly #helicopter #how

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#forced #happiness #honor #i #i can

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

#comes #everything #existence #happiness #life

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