#pine

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#ago #chanting #creativity #general #had

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#better #better place #continues #dalai #dalai lama

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#before #fraught #laughter #look #our

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#unhappiness #vocation #writing

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. ↗

— Red Skelton

#children #god #happiness #reasons #their

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance. ↗

— Irène Némirovsky

#hate #life #love #life

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. ↗

— Red Skelton

#around #brought #happiness #instead #laugh

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. ↗

— Red Skelton

#cannot #care #forming #happiness #misery

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. ↗

— Adam Smith

#finger #lays #never #pulse

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ↗

— Adam Smith

#clear #clear conscience #conscience #debt #happiness