#pine

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#bringing #contribute #disaster #every #field

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#breath #cedar #dawns #fragrant #hundred

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#human #human life #life #make #make up

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bring #half #joy #sweet #taken

To describe happiness is to diminish it. ↗

— Stendhal

#describe #diminish

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#bright #except #fear #feeling #future

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#children #condition #dead #formerly #happiness

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#happiness #having #lot #money #reverse

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change. ↗

— Rik Leaf

#life #pursuing-happiness #risk-taking #change

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life #change