#happines

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#folks #happy #make #make up #minds

Happiness? No, it's not there for me. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#me

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#create #help #ones #our #own

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ↗

— George Orwell

#exist #happiness #only

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#communicated #false #happiness #kind #men

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#ashamed #confusion #equal #excitement #fear

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#appreciate #believe #cannot #happiness #haven