#happines

I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her? ↗

— José Eduardo Agualusa

#happy #love #love

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. ↗

— Michael Palin

#love #marriage #parents #love

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #love

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#forever #happiness #inspirational #life #love

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#community #contribution #difference #drift #happiness

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#inspirational #inspirational-books #motivational-quotes #inspirational

When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose. ↗

— John Kuypers

#inspiration #present #wisdom #inspirational

We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker... ↗

— CrimethInc.

#happiness #inspirational #life #inspirational