Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.
I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
There's no way that a clear mind can live an unhappy life.
Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.
Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?
If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.
Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.
Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.
May we all be doomed to a happy life.
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!
A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.