Meryl Streep Quotes

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

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.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

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.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

The most important things in life aren't things.

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

The simple things in life make me very happy.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.

You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world.

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

Simple things make me very happy.

Men and women cannot live by bread alone. They must also tinkle. Show me someone who has no trouble tinkling, and I will show you a happy and rich person.

You could take everything off me tomorrow, I'll still be happy. So long as my family are living very close together, that's all that matters, really, for me.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

I want to love. I want to enjoy life.

I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.