H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

Relationships make me happy.

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

The good life is built with good relationships.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.

I've grown up a lot, and I've realized that what I need to make myself happy is the people around you.

I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.

All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.

I do what I love and have people around me that I care about.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.