#pines

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 think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— William Weld

#happiness #helping #i #i think #major

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#jack #lemmon #working

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#become #between #hang-ups #obstacles #own

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#difficult #finally #finding #getting #great

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom? ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#family #happiness #life #family

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive