Quotes About Being Happy Without Friends

#1. Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.

Lisa Renee Jones

#2. When you 'make good,' you find out who your real friends are. You find out pretty quick. And it's a very ambivalent feeling, because you're, like, happy you found out that people are [jerkfaces], but you're kinda sad because you think, 'Wow, I wasted so much time being this person's friend.'

Greg Camp

#3. When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

Johnny Otis

#4. I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.

David Lee

#5. I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, everything is there to show that people enjoyed themselves; and one comes back to the empty room happy that it's over, happy to relax and say, 'Now we are alone again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#6. I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.

Holly Madison

#7. A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.

Homer

#8. I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that.

Taylor Swift

#9. When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

John James Audubon

#11. I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?

Juan Pablo Galavis

#12. I have tolerated the deceitful and the malicious for long enough. My sword shall now answer them.

Steven Erikson

#13. All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Godfrey Reggio

#14. I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

Fergie

#15. The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.

Jason Collins

#16. Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy ...

Rebecca West

#17. I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

Helen Clark

#18. All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Blaise Pascal

#19. Mamoon went on, "The news I bring is to say that, man being the only animal who hates himself, the likely fate of the world is total self-destruction." He raised his glass. "All the best then, my friends. Here's to a happy apocalypse."
"Happy apocalypse," murmured the other guests, obediently.

Hanif Kureishi

#20. Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

Girl Talk

#21. I want to move past my own unkindness with love, and know the reckless love of Jesus, and extend that love - that unconditional, always-believing-the-best, full-of-forgiveness-and-grace love.

Kara Tippetts

#22. The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

Robert Quillen

#23. I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.

Jane Goodall

#24. A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

Dalai Lama

#25. Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the valley. He was well treated. He made friends with a girl called Fayaway, swam and boated with her, and except for his fear of being eaten was happy enough.

W. Somerset Maugham

#26. I'm just happy we're cool. I just want to go back to being the type of friends who have fun. Give each other rides. Bury dead bodies together. Be each other's alibis.

G.L. Tomas

#27. I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott

#28. All of this, you and me, is brand new, you're right. Let's just take this one small step at a time."
"These small steps include sex, right?

Karina Halle

#29. Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.

Liam Tancock

#30. Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

Aeschylus

#31. It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

Jennifer Grey