Meryl Streep Quotes

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I love food and I love living.

I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

When you like something, it's not work, it's a pleasure.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace. But I don't really have any great ambitions. I feel very happy. I've got a lot of good friends. I just want it to be better and more of it, really.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.

There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.

I think that success is having fun.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

I think comfort, stability, and love are the things that really let me be happy. Deep down inside I'm a little boring, I guess.