Dolly Parton

To me, obligation is not love. Letting someone be open, honest and free – that’s love. It’s got to come natural and it’s got to be real.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

I’ve found happiness in my work, but not in my private life. I had to take from my private life to make my public life successful. I had to make a lot of sacrifices. I was happy in Cardiff. I had a great time. Every Thursday there was a factory club; darts, dancing. I was happy until success entered my life, and then it was all downhill. Success spoilt me. It took away my happiness. My success became a barrier with my family. They couldn’t relate to me, and I couldn’t relate to them.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

I think happiness is love.