#pines

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#back #because #bit #buy #car

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#different #fulfillment #gotten #happiness #just

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#contains #germ #growth #itself

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#capacity #choose #divine #either #greater

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#course #eight #everyone #happiness #i

Beauty is the promise of happiness. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#happiness #promise

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. ↗

— John Burroughs

#chimney #discovered #discovered the secret #draws #either

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#amiable #easy #how #midst #success

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#anyone #because #before #done #else

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself— sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened— down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#joy #love #art