#pines

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. ↗

— Irene Hunt

#contentment #happiness #little-things #beauty

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#depends #did #founders #government #happiness

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#could #decide #define #dishes #happiness

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#happiness #happy #here #i #i love

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#am #happy #i #i am #kind

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#had #happiness #i #least #more

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

#been #excited #fugitive #gladly #happiness

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#appreciate #bliss #domestic #patience #prefer

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#happiness #knowledge #possible