~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

Ellen Key

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

Freya Stark

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Conners as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.

Judith Viorst