#pines

To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#buying-a-cake #cake #happiness #howl-at-the-moon #inspirational

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #inspirational #quotient #reality #inspirational

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#finishing #happiness #inspirational #success #inspirational

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#inspiration #inspirational

While I was yearning for happiness I became happy. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #inspirational #inspirational

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude. ↗

— André Maurois

#life #wisdom #life

Do not give hope where there is none. Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some. ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #success #wisdom

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance. ↗

— Gabrielle Williams

#hard-times #inspiracional #experience

Happiness is when the body, mind, and soul experience a sense of complete wholeness. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#wholeness #experience