#pines

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. ↗

— Kanye West

#fits #happiness #i #ideas #me

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#am #country #covet #envious #glory

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#another #back #beautiful #collectively #community

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#less #more #more or less #pain #purchased

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance. ↗

— Katy Perry

#because #changed #disagree #even #happiness

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#care #consisted #cow #ease #either

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#happiness #little #much #station #too

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. ↗

— George Westinghouse

#fellow #fellow man #happiness #i #man