#pines

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#drink #half #happiness #i #other

But happiness is no respecter of persons. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#persons

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#bank #bank account #cook #digestion #good

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#always #beauty #being #being responsible #believer

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#because #difficult #easier #film #got

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#action movies #child #exploitation #film #film industry

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#i #intelligent #intelligent people #know #people

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ↗

— Heraclitus

#envy #happiness #lasts #longer #our

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#convinced #depends #events #far #happiness