#pines

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#business

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

My soul feels reborn each time I see you; falling in love with you again and again. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #love #reborn #soul #love

Tatsuya: What you have "right now" won't necessarily continue on until forever... Hiro: ... Yeah, I know. ↗

— Ibuki Haneda

#forever #happiness #reality #love

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#heartache #hurt #love #memory #pain

Pain is temporary, love is forever, don't make it the other way around. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #love #love-quotes #relationships #life

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#imagination

I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me. ↗

— S.J. Watson

#love #love

I don't have to look for love, because I am love. ↗

— Euphoria Godsent

#completeness #confidence #empowerment #euphoria-godsent #fulfillment

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#joy #envy