#pines

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

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

— Margaret Oliphant

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

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. ↗

— Suze Orman

#balance #correct #courage #generosity #grace

You can be happy where you are. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#be happy #happy #where #you

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

#duty #happiness #inseparably #moral #moral duty

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#happiness #i #joy #land #long

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#experience #remember #something #you

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ↗