#pines

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ↗

— Don Marquis

#between #interval #periods #unhappiness

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

#hands #happiness #himself #how #into

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. ↗

— Diana Ross

#difficult #felt #greater #happiness #i

I don't know exactly what covetise is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offence at the beauty of it. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#happiness #beauty

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. ↗

— David O. McKay

#compassion #earth #enter #happiness #human

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#cloud #enough #evaporates #like #long

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#enjoy #kiss #like #must #share

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. ↗

— Debra Messing

#believe #endgame #fundamentally #go #happiness

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen. ↗

— Debra Messing

#control #find #going #happen #happiness

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#events #happiness #matter #mind #tides