#pines

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#being #family #happiness #happy #just

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. ↗

— William Hall

#each #expected #fullness #happiness #health

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ↗

— Henry Ford

#accomplished #except #happiness #joy #realization

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

#attained #by-product #comes #directly #happiness

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#be happy #brilliant #climax #decisions #grim

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#be happy #born #circumstances #determination #happiness

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#friendship #getting #happiness #mere #more

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#be happy #circumstances #determination #happiness #happy

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them. ↗

— Marc Webb

#get #get married #got #happiness #i