The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne FrankIn the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
Ruth Bader GinsburgJust do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard ShawLaughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
Kevin HartI feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.
Alice MunroI had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
Christopher HitchensPeace is its own reward.
Mahatma GandhiMarrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Thomas JeffersonIt is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel KantMan’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John RuskinA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace ThackerayThere is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. LewisI always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
Paulo CoelhoCan people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
Alice WalkerIf this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
Lady GagaHe who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.
Brene BrownThe greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor DostoevskyI’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.
Amy WinehouseDo not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
EpicurusRemember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace ThackerayI 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.
Audrey HepburnDivorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
VoltaireTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand RussellI think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.
Joyce MeyerIf you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt CobainSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EpicurusA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaYou can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven WrightWell I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.
Joel OsteenMaking your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.
Lady GagaThere’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
Dave GrohlEnjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
John C. MaxwellSingle life is so overrated.
RihannaPeople say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘
Dolly PartonGod didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.
Mr. TAgainst eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert CamusSuccess is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
Arthur SchopenhauerI always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick LamarThe glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas JeffersonThe class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James MadisonBy taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel JohnsonA wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel JohnsonWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinI’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
Cristiano RonaldoGod wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.
Joyce MeyerThe closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis PresleyUse, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
VoltaireI would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat HanhTo try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
J. Robert OppenheimerA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHuman felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin FranklinYou can’t be happy by doing something groovy.
Bob DylanBut now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.
LeBron James