A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I always wanted to be loved.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.