#pines

There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents. --"Bomar ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#money-not-happiness #beauty

When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness-as-nourishment #importance-of-being-happy #pursuing-happiness #soul-searching #life

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

#different #enduring #happiness #pleasure #something

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

— Georges Simenon

#unhappiness #vocation #writing

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#enjoy #how #makes #much

You're my present and my future, Sadie. I will use whatever power I have to make you happy." - Jax Stone, #Breathe ↗

— Abbi Glines

#love #love

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#arrive #expect #happiness #never #plan