#pines

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#happiness #sadness #family

Health, wealth, happiness, live long and always prosper, have families and also friends, let them be lasting in me forever. ↗

— Toba Beta

#healthy #wealthy #family

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#astronomy-vs-gastronomy #food #happiness #food

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#dispenses #good #good cook #happiness #like

I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been. ↗

— Teresa R. Funke

#inspiration #inspirational #life #war #wisdom

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#happy #heartbreak #hurt #love #self

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#buddhism #destiny #humanism #inspirational #karma

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t ↗

— Stephen Fry

#happiness #humour #change

We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle; some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some through belief, some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we're all here for the sensations this reality or illusion has to offer. The best anyone can hope for is the right to be able to Live, Learn, Love then Leave. After that, reap the benefits of their own chosen existence in the hereafter by virtue of simply believing in what they believe. As for here, it took me a while but this progression helped me with my life: "I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#god #happiness #life #love #peace

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #love #change