Andrew Shue Quotes

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.

The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

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

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.

A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.