#pines

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#find #happiness #looking #only #people

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#happiness #i #joy #land #long

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. ↗

— Stanislaw Lem

#cannibals #prefer #spines #those #who

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#by-product #cannot #itself #pursue #you

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#affection #durable #happiness #lives #nine-tenths

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#because #cannot #give #god #happiness

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#be happy #beyond #courage #expect #gotten

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery. ↗

— Justin Long

#based #business #feel #happiness #hit

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. ↗

— John Lubbock

#like #practiced #thing #violin