LZ Granderson Quotes

I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

A social life is just as important to me as my work life because I think if you have a healthy balance of the two, you'll be really happy.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.

After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.