Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

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

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.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

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.

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

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

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.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I don’t like being alone.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.