#pines

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#delightful #fruit #got #happiness #into

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. ↗

— Mario Batali

#continuously #eat #else #finding #fulfillment

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#believe #conservatives #find #guaranteed #happen

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#beauty #could #good #good thing #happiness

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#behind #bride #fine #happiness #her

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator. ↗

— Dwain K. White Sr.

#inspirational #love #nonfiction #romance #dreams

we're all golden sunflowers inside. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#happiness #love #love

You are only free when your happiness is not dictated by your needs. ↗

— Gabriella Kortsch

#happiness #freedom

Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete: Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen. ↗

— Anna Gavalda

#freiheit #glück #happiness #luck #freedom