#pine

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#able #being #choices #choose #comes

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#obsolete

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#desires #enjoyment #every #every man #evidently

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. ↗

— Richard Bach

#happiness #highest #know #living #reward

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#complaint #happiness #invites #who

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#also #beacon #fond #fond memories #future

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#counterfeit #dearly #enough #happiness #how

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bad #exaggerate #happiness #happy #misfortune

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#end #enjoyment #enriched #every #good

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. ↗

— Aeschylus

#burden #burdened #disease #doubles #groans