All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I was adored once too.