#pines

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#always #beyond #butterfly #down #grasp

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#away #happiness #moment #sacrifice #sake

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#happiness #search #sources #unhappiness

The groundwork of all happiness is health. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#groundwork #happiness #health

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#experience

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. ↗

— Euripedes

#children #disappointment #grief #happiness #his

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#anymore #happiness #hurts #i #life

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#happiness #unless

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#coming #happiness #hope #i #i can

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. ↗

— Bob Goddard

#art