#pines

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#biggest #comes #day #every #every day

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#because #bring #i #influenced #like

My life has run from misery to happiness. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#life #misery #my life #run

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#gratitude #itself #kind

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#connected #demographic #determine #did #done

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#gain #guided #happiness #ignorance #imperfect

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. ↗

— Irene Hunt

#contentment #happiness #little-things #beauty

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#depends #did #founders #government #happiness

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#could #decide #define #dishes #happiness