Quotes About Happiness

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

It's a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day.

I work out at least once a day. If I'm not working, I'll work out three times a day. I do it because I enjoy it. It's a way of living and it makes me relaxed. It gives me mental stability, honestly.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

If there are moments in my work when people find joy and humour, that's a real success for me.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.