#pines

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #contentment #enjoyment #happiness #joy

She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free but still got treated like a rented mule. ↗

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#happiness #obliviousness #change

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them? ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#leslie #love

Live every day as if they last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational-attitude #life #attitude

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#circumstances #contentment #happiness #attitude

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #happiness #love #faith

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail. ↗

— George Alexiou

#achievement #chance #change #destiny #empowerment

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#ask #condition #felt #happiness #most

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#achievement #after #afterglow #best #come