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Quotes About Happiness

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
~ Angelina Jolie
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.
~ Socrates
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
~ Unknown
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
~ Alphonse Karr
He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.
~ Ani DiFranco
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
~ Aphra Behn
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last
~ Samuel Johnson
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
~ Unknown
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
~ Carrie Snow
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
~ Gloria Steinem
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
~ Helen Rowland
I say I dont sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I dont sleep with happily married men.
~ Britt Ekland
If happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, then we must be happy for all that comes into our life, for even misfortune blesses us if it builds our character and strengthens our faith in pursuing that which is good and noble.
~ Meera Lester
Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life you could call it the heart of being human is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
My only purpose is to live a happy life and if I can't fulfill that purpose then my effort, courage and ambition isn't enough.
~ Unknown
Life is about getting hurt, pain and of sadness but life's also about happiness, love and of fun and the happy, loving and fun moments will always outweigh the others.
~ Unknown
Give your life happiness and excitement, not tears and pain.
~ Unknown
If youre not doing the things that you love, then your life is not worth living. What are you here for?
~ Unknown
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
~ Unknown