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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

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

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Smiles are the language of love.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

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

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Love is only one of many passions.

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.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

I was adored once too.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.