Esther Perel Quotes

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

Esther Perel

• Happiness

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Different
  • Lost

• As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Wisdom
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Virtue

• All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Success
  • Happiness

• Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Prosperity
  • Require

• It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Human
  • Activity

• It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit as being Happiness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Actions
  • Functions

• If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happiness
  • Evolution
  • Aims

• The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Spiritual

• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Population
  • Less
  • Then

• Any peace is better than any war.

  

  Plato
  • War
  • Peace
  • Better

• You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Doubt
  • Halloween
  • Compliment

• Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Happiness