#happines

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#happiness #knowledge #money #art

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#taking-chances #dreams

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#past

Memory is the happiness of being alone. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#memory #alone

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#happiness #woman #woman

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#risk #risk

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#unhappiness #universe

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#balance

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#poetry #unexpected

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#fall