Dorothy Day Quotes

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.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

I love being with my family, my friends, and my boyfriend.

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.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

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

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.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

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

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

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.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

Of course I'd like someone in my life. And of course, when I go home in the evening, I wish there was someone waiting for me. But very honestly, I don't have time to be lonely. My work fills up most of my day, and when I get home, I just want to sleep.

I think there's a lot of different kinds of love: not just between a boyfriend and girlfriend, but love with your family, love with the people around you. I think that's really important and, I think, would really be a good thing for the world and make a better world for everybody.