#happines

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #around #be happy #get #got

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. ↗

— T.H. White

#dichotomy #happiness #pain #stoicism #beauty

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

#attained #by-product #comes #directly #happiness

I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#happiness #magic #optimism #seashore #beauty

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#compatible #diminished #ever #happiness #hardly

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. ↗

— James Van Der Zee

#else #few #getting #happiness #perfume

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#drive #extent #follow #get #good

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#english #except #happiness #love #novel