#pines

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#accomplishment #anymore #artist #base #being

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. ↗

— Ovid

#broken #chains #given #happy #hurt

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#believing #consist #consists #does #faithful

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. ↗

— Thucydides

#freedom #happiness #secret

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. ↗

— James Payn

#feel #future #happiness #i #i do

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ↗

— Johann Pestalozzi

#happiness #man #must #own #right

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#balance #harmony #intensity #matter #order

When ambition ends, happiness begins. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#begins #ends #happiness

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ↗