Bette Midler Quotes

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Look for happiness under your own roof.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.