#happines

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #negation #suffering #life

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#joy #life #life-lessons #living-life #life

I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#life

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#life #life

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#happiness #life #reading #self-sufficiency #life

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness? ↗

— Isaac Marion

#life-and-living #maximalism #life

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness. ↗

— Anne-Laure Bondoux

#life-lessons #life

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#professor-phelps #william-lyon-phelps #wisdom #life

I'll have a cup full of Happiness and a pocket full of Rainbows to go. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#pain #suffering #life