#happines

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#difficult #finally #finding #getting #great

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. ↗

— Martin Yan

#believe #comes #done #get #happiness

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#happens #happiness #happy #hardship #hell

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ↗

— Andre Gide

#happiness #only #prepares #story #told

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

#child #dark #end #just #might

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ↗

— Epictetus

#way-to-be #worry