#pines

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#secret

Life isn't about counting what you've earned or what you've done for others. I think life is in those in-between moments when you do something, and you feel really, truly happy just by doing it. ↗

— Snigdha Rai

#life #life

The enchanted day is only enchanted if we ourselves believe that anything is possible. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#happiness #life #luck-peace #magic #passion

Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory, if you think about it hard enough.) ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #life #misery #resolve #richelle

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#happiness #more #producing #right #than

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. ↗

— Red Skelton

#around #brought #happiness #instead #laugh

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

#cannot #care #forming #happiness #misery

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#end #fewer #happiness #look #marriage

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. ↗

— John Stossel

#happiness #meaningful #our #purpose #skills

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#divine #happiness #heaven #intelligence #lord