It's such an obedient way to be for a woman, to try to keep yourself in top shape, to follow all the rules and hope that will get you a measure of stability or happiness. That's part of the affluent suburban dream: to do everything perfectly in a long-winded way, to try to fulfill all the requirements.
— Robin Weigert
Happiness is a key to my success, and my family is a root of that.
— Robert Whittaker
I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
— Robert Powell
To forget oneself is to be happy.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
— Robert Harris
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
— Robert Frost
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
— Rob Thomas
They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.
— RM
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
— Rita Mae Brown
I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.
— Ricky Martin
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
— Rick Derringer
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
— Richard Simmons
The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.
— Richard Gere
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
— Richard Eyre
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
— Richard Cobden
Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.
— Roberto Baggio
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
— Robert Trout
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
— Robert Orben
Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.
— Robert Kraft
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
— Robert Burton
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
They talk about the American Dream. I still believe in that. I still believe that this is a great country, where great things can happen, where anybody can become president of the United States. Just that simple statement there defines so much about the whole business of liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
— Rob Halford
I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
— Rivers Cuomo
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
— Ring Lardner
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
— Rick Pitino
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
— Richie Sambora
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
— Richard Rohr
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
— Richard Ford
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
— Richard Branson
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
— Robert Wyatt
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
— Robert Herrick
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
— Rob Brydon
Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition - they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It's not only the star system. It's a symbol of freedom.
— Rithy Panh
I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
— Ricky Williams
Being healthy is part of the happiness of life.
— Rick Harrison
Happiness is no laughing matter.
— Richard Whately
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
— Richard Dreyfuss
