Some of my favourite Quotes on Happiness & Marriage
HAPPINESS :
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Cherish all your happy moments ; they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher Morley
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
- Roy M. Goodman
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it .
- C.P.Snow
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
- Oscar Levant
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness
- Nicole Kidman
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
MARRIAGE :
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon Mclaughlin
Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home but it doesn’t always go with everything in the house.
- Jean Kerr
A great marriage is not when ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
- Dave Meurer
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
- Ann Landers
Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.
- Clint Eastwood
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
- Homer
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Martin Luther