#pines

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. ↗

— Toba Beta

#control #happiness #joyful #life #mood

Call no man happy until he is dead. ↗

— Solon

#happiness #history #philosophy #the-good-life #life

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #negation #suffering #life

Happiness is the most tired word in any language. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#dissatisfaction #happiness #happiness-life #happy #pursuit-of-happiness

I'm so profoundly happy! Happiness like this is frightening. They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you" -- Sofia Akrami from The Kite Runner ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#happiness #life #life

Lalalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Wonderful music, for it is the music of happiness. ↗

— Unknown

#music #music

consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#wants #wishes #life

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#haidt #happiness #jon #jonathan #life