#pines

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

If you say you can't, you won't! The only thing holding you back from success is yourself. ↗

— Jody Provost

#life-philosophy #love #success #love

What I know of love is satisfaction, Contentment, pleasure, and vivaciousness. But all my envisions were all fictions. 'Cause there's no such thing as pure happiness. ↗

— Eli Emmanuel N. Libuit

#love

True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .] Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. ‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#happiness #holy-in-christ #joy #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

I found in myself the ability to give everything, to lay the whole show on the line. In that ability is hidden happiness, and all men have it, lurking somewhere.. ↗

— Dick Dorworth

#happiness #skiing #men

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#happiness #money #thanks #money

You can never have too much money. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#lottery #lottery-tickets #materialism #materialism-versus-spiritualism #money

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have. ↗

— Robert B. Reich

#happiness #money