#pines

As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#life #sadness #life

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane. ↗

— Daniel Klein

#life

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #selfishness #love

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. ↗

— John Belushi

#happiness #i #state #time #want

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#catholicism #christianity #church #discipline #happiness

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ↗

— John Green

#unhappiness #person

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ↗

— Edward Lear

#happiness #nursery-rhymes #happy

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#happiness #happy #inconsiderate #peace #problem

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#child #children #dream #every #giving

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#attitude #both #come #generate #good attitude