The outside world doesn't have a lot to offer. You have to make your own heaven in your own home.
The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.
I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.
Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
I love my refrigerator.
Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.
Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
I love being married. I love my house; I love my kids. I love all of it.
Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.
