Life in abundance comes only through great love.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Life is anything but predictable.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

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

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Life must be lived as play.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

My life is my argument.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Single life is so overrated.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.