#pine

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator. ↗

— Dwain K. White Sr.

#inspirational #love #nonfiction #romance #dreams

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#counted #counting #does #enough #every

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #bookstore #content #few #glance

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

#chinese #else #feet #fixed #happiness

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

#degree #derived #each #follow #freedom

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

#happiness #may #prepare #self #should

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. ↗

— Islom Karimov

#happiness #your

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#gardens #grows #our #own #picked

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. ↗

— Euripides

#batters #brief #god #sails #stay

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

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