Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I don’t want to be an action star; action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

How young can you die of old age?

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The earth laughs in flowers.