#pine

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. ↗

— Charlotte Davis Kasl

#avoiding #between #caretakers #caring #children

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ↗

— Helen Keller

#carpet #grass #lush #luxurious #me

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#be happy #happy #life #moment #your

The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. ↗

— Milos Forman

#because #censorship #character #control #destroys

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21) ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#happiness #joy #mindfulness #peace #present-moment

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#being #discovers #finally #happiness #happiness lies

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#food #happiness #life #reading #food

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#happiness #striving

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever. ↗

— Kristin Kimball

#happiness #marriage #food

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. ↗

— Henry Knox

#cannot #forced #happiness #humiliation #line