Mardy Grothe Quotes

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

I'm happy in my life.

I have a beautiful wife, I have two great kids, my career's still going, I've got my health. What can I ask for?

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

I have a good life.

My life now could not be better.

I have this amazing life.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I'm really happy in my life.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.