#pines

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#before #believes #convinced #each #found

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#biggest #comes #day #every #every day

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#because #bring #i #influenced #like

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#choice #consists #friends #multitude #true

My life has run from misery to happiness. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ↗

— Helen Keller

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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. ↗

— Helen Keller

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And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money. ↗

— Kesha

#correlation #happiness #money