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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

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

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.