#pines

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ↗

— Sophocles

#breathing #call #corpse #happiness #him

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. ↗

— Philo

#cities #countries #enjoyed #fill #free

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#achievement #does #lie

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry -- school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general -- but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place. ↗

— Melanie Thernstrom

#uncertainty

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#exile #happiness #home #manners

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. ↗

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#happiness #prayer #service #service

Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days. They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #joy #richelle #richelle-goodrich #richelle-goodrich

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#child #children #dream #every #giving