#pines

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#be happy #finding #happiness #happy #high

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#compassion #fool #happiness #most #naturally

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ↗

— Antonio Gala

#important #nothing #realizing #too

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#discovery #dish #happiness #humanity #more

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey . . . ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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