#pines

The happiness of society is the end of government. ↗

— John Adams

#government #happiness #society

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#companions #conversation #enjoyment #few #first

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#essentials #grand #happiness #life #love

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#becomes #corrupt #enemy #happiness #less

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #happiness #heaven #man #secures

Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness. ↗

— Jerry L. Ainsworth

#happiness #healing #health #love #love

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#happiness #love #sex #love

I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#love #love

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. ↗

— James Taylor

#love #relationships #love

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage ↗

— Adam Phillips

#marriage