Happiness Expectations Quotes

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.