#happines

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

My soul feels reborn each time I see you; falling in love with you again and again. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #love #reborn #soul #love

The place of happiness you can return to is in the arms of the one you love. ↗

— Yuki Yoshihara

#love #romantic #love

Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind" (Gospel Ideals, p. 475). ↗

— David O. McKay

#happiness #home

It doesn't really matter who you used to be, what matters is who you've become. ↗

— Robert Tew

#happiness-quote #life-quote #love-quote #quote #self-worth

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#love #sadness #love

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. ↗

— John Fowles

#love #love

If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china. ↗

— Bryan Cohen

#love #love

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows. ↗

— James Salter

#knowing #love #sex #sin #love

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#heartache #hurt #love #memory #pain