Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

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.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

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.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I don’t have many sad days.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Love is a serious mental disease.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

We will always be a family. Always.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

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

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.