#pines

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#happiness #joy #pursuit #pursuit of happiness #such

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

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#america #because #best #faults #happiness

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ↗

— Harry Harrison

#happiness #important #life #live #most

You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life #life-quote #love #life

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

#australia #being #california #dreams #find

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#happiness #independence #other #political