It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Jordan PetersonA man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MenckenMindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat HanhHappiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor DostoevskyBe content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus AureliusHappiness is the cessation of suffering.
Thich Nhat HanhIt was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘
Angelina JolieI’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
Brene BrownPeace is its own reward.
Mahatma GandhiIt is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonI think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.
Joyce MeyerTake care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard ShawI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David ThoreauWhen you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil GibranWhen I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.
Kevin HartThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch SpinozaThere is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
ChanakyaThe talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
Woody AllenIt is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham LincolnSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea BallouIf you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.
Clint EastwoodHappiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon HillWho is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin FranklinMarriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da VinciA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace ThackeraySometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat HanhThe recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert HubbardThey dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander PopeMen want to make women happy.
Jerry SeinfeldI’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.
Lady GagaWear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George EliotEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerI believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
Barack ObamaThe happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonThere is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. LewisThe essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
EpictetusThe secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard ShawEnjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
John C. MaxwellThere is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew CarnegieWealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EpictetusI don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.
Mr. TGod cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LewisMy ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor SwiftMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaTell your wife often how terrific she looks.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry SeinfeldWe are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Thich Nhat HanhMarriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine HepburnStrike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. MenckenWhen I get married, it’ll be no secret.
Elvis PresleyMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George EliotLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother TeresaI want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaYou know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
Mr. TOff with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van BeethovenChoosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Joel OsteenMy wife and I are very affectionate.
Tom BradyWhen you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘
Dalai LamaI would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.
Arnold Schwarzenegger