#happines

He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center." Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick. ↗

— Ben Mikaelsen

#anger #happiness #left-end-of-the-stick #anger

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#happiness #suffering #art

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#life #life

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#limits #oppression #sadomasochism #sex #sexuality

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#art

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#always #beyond #butterfly #down #grasp

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#away #happiness #moment #sacrifice #sake

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ↗