Mary Balogh Quotes

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

I'm living my dream now.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

My ambition is to be happy.

There must be more to life than having everything.